Around 20 injured in Rome escalator incident

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This handout picture taken and released by the Vigili del Fuoco, the Italian fire and rescue service, on October 23, 2018 shows the wreckage of an escalator after it jammed at the underground metro station “Repubblica” in Rome, injuring at least fifteen people. – Some fifteen people were injured, five seriously, including Russian supporters of CSKA Moscow on their way to attend the Champions League football match AS Rome vs CSKA Moscow, after a portion of an escalator got jammed at rush hour in the central metro station “Repubblica” of the Italian capital. (Photo by Handout / Vigili del Fuoco / AFP) 

ROME, Italy (AFP) — Around 20 people were injured Tuesday when an escalator leading to a metro station in central Rome collapsed in an accident believed to have been caused by Russian football fans, Italian media said.

The AGI news agency said that “a large group of CSKA fans, probably under the influence of alcohol, began to jump together, provoking the collapse” of one part of the escalator.

CSKA Moscow was playing Roma in a Champions League match.

Sky-TG24 television quoted police sources as saying that at least 20 people had been injured, mostly Russians, and that one was in serious condition.

AGI reported that around 15 CSKA fans had been hurt, two of them seriously.

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