An ordinary trip to a soccer game turned harrowing for one group of travelling fans.
An escalator went out of control Tuesday in Rome at the Piazza Repubblica metro station, causing a crush of bodies at the bottom, where 20-plus fans of Russian soccer club CSKA Moscow suffered injuries.
The incident took place prior to CSKA’s UEFA Champions League game against hosts AS Roma, and Italy’s Rai Radio 1 shared footage of the escalator accident on Twitter. (Warning: the video contains graphic images.)
📍 Metro #Roma: cede scala mobile, circa 20 i feriti, quasi tutti russi. Stazione #Repubblica chiusa
Nel video il momento del crollo pic.twitter.com/4Qxh784Msm— Rai Radio1 (@Radio1Rai) October 23, 2018
Rome’s emergency-response service shared a photo of the mangled escalator stairs, on which some of the injured CSKA fans were trapped.
#Roma #23ott 19:45, cede scala mobile #metroA stazione #repubblica: intervento #vigilidelfuoco in corso per soccorso ai feriti pic.twitter.com/TVAsgYD8Zd
— Vigili del Fuoco (@vigilidelfuoco) October 23, 2018
Italian police said seven people suffered serious injuries, but none were life threatening, according to Reuters.
