For reasons still unclear, the car parked in front of the kindergarten started rolling over Wednesday afternoon and broke through the fence. Then he created a group of children. A four-year-old boy died in the accident, police confirmed in the city in the Abruzzo region. Several other children were injured, one seriously, according to media reports.
According to the Ansa news agency, the car was according to the first witness statements of a mother who was just picking up her child. She left her other child in the car for a while.
“Our families didn’t deserve this pain, our city didn’t deserve another tragedy like this,” Mayor Pierluigi Biondi wrote on Facebook. L’Aquila in central Italy was rocked by a powerful earthquake in April 2009 and partially destroyed. Then more than 300 people died. “My heart as a father and mayor is torn. When a child stops playing, hope falters,” Biondi wrote, announcing a day of mourning in the city for Thursday.