{"id":51397,"date":"2025-03-24T12:37:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:37:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/scots-tourist-in-hospital-after-rome-holiday-explosion\/"},"modified":"2025-03-24T12:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-03-24T12:37:44","slug":"scots-tourist-in-hospital-after-rome-holiday-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/scots-tourist-in-hospital-after-rome-holiday-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"Scots tourist in hospital after Rome holiday explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Grant Paterson is understood to be in hospital being treated for severe burns<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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A Scottish tourist has been seriously injured in a suspected gas explosion that destroyed his holiday home in Rome.<\/p>\n

Grant Paterson, 54, was rescued on Saturday morning from the rubble of a three-storey building in the Monteverde area of the Italian capital.<\/p>\n

Mr Paterson, from East Kilbride in Lanarkshire, is understood to be receiving treatment for severe burns at Rome’s Sant’Eugenio hospital.<\/p>\n

Roberto Gualtieri, the Mayor of Rome, has visited the scene and has ordered an investigation into the explosion. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The three-storey holiday home was destroyed in the explosion<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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It is understood that Mr Paterson, who works for Scottish ferry operator CalMac, arrived in Rome last week on a solo trip.<\/p>\n

In a post on social media he wrote: “Accommodation is beautiful. This should be a good week.”<\/p>\n

According to local news site Roma Today, he was pulled out of the ruins conscious and is believed to have suffered serious burns to 75% of his body.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Mayor Gualtieri told reporters: “We don’t know his exact condition, but he suffered burns, and this also suggests that it was an explosion caused by gas, which also causes flames.<\/p>\n

“It was a very loud explosion, a building collapsed and the wall of Villa Pamphili was also damaged.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n


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