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Firefighters at the scene of an explosion at a gas station in Rome, Italy, Friday, July 4, 2025. (Cecilia Fabiano/LaPresse via AP)

Rome gas station blast that left at least 40 injured could have been worse, says mayor

A gas station explosion in southeastern Rome has injured at least 40 people, including eleven police officers and a firefighter who rushed to the scene, but wider loss of lives was narrowly averted, the city’s mayor said.

Former Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi waves to reporters as he arrives at the Chamber of Deputies to meet Mario Draghi, in Rome, Feb. 9, 2021. Berlusconi is a Serie A owner again after his Monza club won a Serie B playoff Sunday to reach the top division. (AP Photo/Alessandra Tarantino, File)

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People sit in the shade along the Seine river in Paris, Sunday, June 29, 2025. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)

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Italy's soccer federation president Franco Carraro gestures during a press conference at "Casa Azzurri" Italian media headquarters in Sendai, Japan, Monday, June 10, 2002. (AP Photo/Luca Bruno, File)

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Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni, from left, France's President Emmanuel Macron, Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney, President Donald Trump, Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer and Germany's Chancellor Friedrich Merz participate in a session of the G7 Summit, Monday, June 16, 2025, in Kananaskis, Canada. (AP Photo/Mark Schiefelbein)

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Vast area destroyed in Rome after petrol station blast that injured more than 40

Two among those injured were reported to be in “severe condition,” and hospitalized at Rome’s Casilino hospital. Eleven of the injured are from law enforcement corps — police and carabinieri — and one is a firefighter, they said, adding they were not in life-threatening conditions. (Produced by Maria Grazia Murru)

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Vice President JD Vance, from left, Italy's Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen meet at the Chigi Palace in Rome, Italy, Sunday, May 18, 2025. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Italian Premier Giorgia Meloni shake hands following their meeting at Villa Pamphilj in Rome, Tuesday, April 29, 2025. (Roberto Monaldo/LaPresse via AP)

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