Manslaughter inquiry after death of worker in Rome tower collapse

Prosecutors have opened a manslaughter investigation after the death of a worker who was trapped when a medieval monument in central Rome partly collapsed.

- Angela Giuffrida

Octav Stroici, 66, was rescued on Monday night after 11 hours under fallen masonry but died of his injuries at the city's Umberto I hospital.

Lamberto Giannini, the city's prefect, said: "The [rescue] operation lasted a long time because every time a part of the body was freed there was additional rubble that covered it."

Stroici, from Suceava in northern Romania, had lived with his family in Italy for more than 30 years, La Repubblica reported. "He was an exquisite, calm and very good person," a colleague told the newspaper.