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| Off-street parking: Florence road collapse sinks row of cars | Off-street parking: Florence road collapse sinks row of cars |
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| A stretch of street has collapsed in central Florence, dropping a row of parked cars into an underground pipeline and cutting water supplies to part of the ancient city. | A stretch of street has collapsed in central Florence, dropping a row of parked cars into an underground pipeline and cutting water supplies to part of the ancient city. |
| About 200 metres (650ft) of road running up to the famous Ponte Vecchio caved in when a major waterpipe it was sitting on broke, the city’s mayor, Dario Nardella, said. | About 200 metres (650ft) of road running up to the famous Ponte Vecchio caved in when a major waterpipe it was sitting on broke, the city’s mayor, Dario Nardella, said. |
| Around 20 cars fell into the water-filled ditch, but no one was injured. | Around 20 cars fell into the water-filled ditch, but no one was injured. |
| Authorities were trying to determine on Wednesday whether the weakened tarmac could withstand the weight of a crane to extract the waterlogged cars. | |
| Nardella stressed that the underground flooding was the result of a gash in a 60-centimeter (two-foot) diameter pipe, one of the major water conduits in the area, and not a leak in the banks of the Arno. |