A serious fire broke out in Vittoria last night in the Ragusa area, where it has lost his life a woman. According to a first hypothesis, the person who started the fire was a man originally from Tunisia and his family members were involved. The man was a guest at his mother’s house when he set fire to her house, thus trying to kill the woman, her husband and the two children, That they suffered very serious burns.
The Tunisian fled and the police are looking for him. He would have started the fire due to an altercation with his relatives, piling up tires in front of the house and then setting them on fire.
The fire was started using a torch with a rag soaked in flammable liquid. The injured were transported to hospitals in Ragusa and Vittoria. In these hours they could be transferred to the “Cannizzaro” hospital in Catania due to the seriousness of their conditions. The fire broke out around 2.30 am in a small house, in Piazza dell’Unità, a few meters from the former small church of the Trinity, now deconsecrated, which gives its name to the neighborhood of the same name, one of the oldest in the city.
The flames were put out by firefighters who are now investigating the causes of the fire. The property was destroyed.
