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800-Year-Old Tower Partially Collapses Near Rome’s Colosseum, Killing a Worker Trapped Inside

A medieval tower near the Colosseum in Rome has partially collapsed, trapping and killing a worker. Octav Stroici, a ...

Worker dies after being rescued from collapsed medieval tower in Rome

The collapse of Torre dei Conti Monday in central Rome left rescuers scrambling to reach a trapped worker, who eventually ...