The World - News from Feb. 8, 1985
A six-story apartment building weakened by water seepage collapsed into a street in the southern Italian town of Castellaneta, killing at least 31 residents. Civil defense officials, who gave the casualty figures, said that five children were among the dead and that the final toll probably will not be determined until today. Prosecutors reportedly were preparing to file charges against the company that built the apartments and against the town’s building inspectors.
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