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March 22, 2019A migrant died due to a fire that broke out just before dawn in the tent city of San Ferdinando (Reggio Calabria), prepared by the Prefecture not far from the slum dismantled by the police in recent weeks and in which they live 500/600 people.

The fire brigade intervened shortly before 6 am with a team that was already guarding the site (and that would have finished the service today): the stake affected one of the blue tents of the Public Relief Department of the Ministry of the Interior, completely gone burned, in which the body of a refugee was later found.

A second tent nearby, half burned, was also on fire. Two other fire brigade teams then arrived on the scene, extinguishing the fire and securing the area. Still to determine the causes, there are no other injuries.

The mayor: "It happened again"
"We hoped that we would no longer have to tell episodes like these, but unfortunately it happened again." To the Adnkronos, the mayor of San Ferdinando, Andrea Tripodi, who is in the new tent city, managed by Caritas, where a migrant died this morning in the fire in the new tent city where a part of the evacuated migrants had been transferred from the slum two weeks ago. "The causes of the fire, which affected a tent, are not yet clear - explains the mayor - and the fire brigade and the Scientific police are at work. Now we are waiting to understand how the facts went. It is certain that it is what happened should not have happened ".

The old slum demolished 2 weeks ago
The old shanty town of San Ferdinando, which was located a few hundred meters from the tent city run by the Municipality, was finally demolished on 7 March after three victims had been registered in one year due to fires. It was the Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, after the last fire on February 16th, to announce that the old structure would be demolished. On the occasion a 29-year-old Senegalese, Moussa Ba, had lost his life. Previously, on 27 January 2018, Becky Moses, a 26-year-old Nigerian, had died, while on 2 December 2018 Surawa Jaith had died a few days before her 18th birthday. The operations of clearing and then demolishing the old barracks began on March 6 and ended the next day without any problem from the point of view of the public order. In recent weeks, the Interior Ministry has allocated 350 thousand euros for the Municipality of San Ferdinando for the management of the post-clearance phase and to restore the urban decor and guarantee "suitable living conditions in the area". After the eviction, a part of the migrants who lived in the slum was transferred to the nearby tent city which was enlarged.