Police and firefighters in Bologna were investigating on March 15 after a fire in an apartment in the Italian city left a mother and her three children dead.“The apartment is currently under seizure,” a post on X from Italy’s National Police said.
Local media said smoke inhalation was the presumed cause of death for two-year-old twins Mattia Stefano and Giulia Maria Panaite, six-year-old Giorgia Alejandra, and their 32-year-old mother, Stefania Alexandra Nistor. The family was said to be from Romania.Deputy Bologna Police Superintendent Pierluigi Pinto told
ANSA a short circuit in a heating system was the likely cause. Credit: Polizio di Stato via Storyful