Tourist dies after gas explosion

Tourist dies after gas explosion

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A 54-year-old Scottish tourist, badly burned in the collapse of a building in the Monteverde Vecchio neighborhood in Rome on March 23, died from his injuries.

The man, Grant Paterson, was in a B&B housed in the building, CE Report quotes ANSA.

Paterson, from East Kilbride in Lanarkshire, worked for Scottish ferry operator CalMac.

He arrived in the Italian capital on a solo tourist trip on March 21.

Paterson suffered burns on 75% of his body from the gas explosion that caused the collapse.

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