Italian Road Collapses, Burying Cars and Cutting Water Supply
A stretch of street collapsed in central Florence early Wednesday, dropping a row of parked cars into an underground pipeline and cutting water supplies to part of the ancient city.
About 650 ft of road running up to the famous Ponte Vecchio bridge caved in when a major water-pipe it was sitting on broke, Mayor Dario Nardella said.
Around 20 cars fell into the newly created ditch, awash with water, but no one was injured.
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