US EditionRescued Worker Dies After 11 Hours Trapped Within Partially Collapsed Medieval Tower in Rome
The collapse during renovation led to an 11-hour rescue for Octav Stroici, who died from injuries; investigations into possible negligence are ongoing.
- On Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, rescuers extracted Octav Stroici, construction worker, from rubble after the Torre dei Conti partially collapsed, but he died soon after, Italy's Premier Giorgia Meloni confirmed.
- The Torre dei Conti, a 13th‑century tower near the Roman Forum in Rome, had been undergoing restoration work costing 400,000 euros, with structural surveys and load tests confirming stability, officials said.
- Repeated collapses forced rescuers into cautious, prolonged extraction methods as teams tried a first-floor window approach, aborted two ladders, and deployed a drone amid ongoing debris and collapsing sections.
- Italian prosecutors arrived at the scene and are investigating possible negligent disaster and negligent injuries while Romanian President Nicusor Dan expressed 'profound sadness' and the Romanian foreign affairs ministry thanked rescuers.
- Hundreds of tourists had gathered as firefighters conducted the first rescue attempts, eyewitnesses described the tower collapsing diagonally, three workers were rescued unharmed and another worker, age 64, was hospitalized in critical condition.
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The wife of the Romanian construction worker who died Monday night in Rome from his injuries after a medieval tower collapsed is devastated. "Octav was only a year away from retirement," she told the Italian newspaper La Repubblica.
We are saddened by the death of poor Octay, the worker involved yesterday in Rome in the collapse of the Tower of Counts. We did everything we could to save him and we had succeeded with an exceptional intervention of our teams to tear him away from the grip of the rubble that imprisoned him for twelve hours. We are close to the family at this tragic moment. The tweet of firefighters on account X says a lot about how much the rescuers we tried t…
The worker who had been extracted from the rubble of a partially collapsed medieval Roman tower died on the night of Monday to Tuesday, shortly after his arrival at the hospital.
Roman Prime Minister Roberto Gualtieri decided to declare tomorrow, 5 November, a day of mourning in the city, in symbol of condolences for Octav Stroci's death, the 66-year-old Roman worker involved in the restoration of the Tower of Conti, which...
Day of mourning in Rome for worker who died in tower - General News
Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri said Tuesday that the city will observe a day of mourning on Wednesday, with flags on municipal buildings at half-mast, for Octay Stroici, a 66-year-old worker who died overnight after being trapped for 11 hours on Monday under... (ANSA)
Worker dies after 11 hours trapped within partially collapsed medieval tower in Rome - OHS Canada Magazine
A firefighter gives a thumbs-up as rescuers pull a construction worker from under the debris of a medieval tower that was under renovation near the Roman Forum in Rome, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025, after it partially collapsed earlier in the morning. (Fabrizio Corradetti/LaPresse via AP) By David Biller And Trisha Thomas Firefighters late Monday finally managed to extract a worker from beneath rubble inside a medieval tower that partially collapsed dur…
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