Five people were injured when a building collapsed in the Italian coastal town of Torre del Greco near Naples on Sunday. According to the rescue workers, three people were rescued alive from the rubble. Two people who walked past the house during the collapse were also injured, it said. The injured received medical attention and were taken to nearby hospitals. The rubble also prevented two elderly women from leaving their homes.

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Contrary to the first assumption that other people could be under the rubble, there is no evidence of missing persons, as the news agencies Ansa and Adnkronos quoted the Prefect of Naples, Claudio Palomba. The crowd on the streets cheered the rescue workers and clapped as the ambulances departed.

The collapsed building is in one of the narrow streets of the old town of Torre del Greco. Torre del Greco is located in Campania between the Vesuvius volcano and the Gulf of Naples around 15 kilometers from the southern Italian metropolis of Naples.

"The buildings here are very old. And this house in particular was problematic, you knew that," the Ansa news agency quoted a local resident as saying. The woman claimed that many cracks and signs of instability were already visible on the facade of the collapsed building.

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