Prosecutors asked for the exhumation after Mr Carboni’s lawyers presented a report based on a preliminary examination of the body that indicated Calvi hanged himself.”What do I think of the exhumation? It was Carboni’s right to seek it in his defence. On visiting the scene Rosa Russo Jervolino, the Italian Interior Minister, described it as “an enormous tragedy”.Francesco Rutelli, the Rome Mayor, said: “If we find that behind this tragedy there is negligence those responsible should be punished severely.” He added that that referred to private or public entities.The city council and Rome magistrates have begun inquiries. The Pope was among those to express his condolences during his weekly audience and the Basilica of St John the Lateran is being made available for the funerals of the victims.. AS HIS son and a judge looked on, the body of Roberto Calvi was exhumed in Italy yesterday to determine whether his 1982 death was murder or suicide. Prosecutors hope a new – and fourth – examination of the body will shed light on the death of Calvi, whose corpse was found hanging from Blackfriars Bridge in London, following Italy’s biggest post-war banking scandal. Banco Ambrosiano, in which the Vatican bank held a significant stake, collapsed in 1982 when it could not collect $1.4bn in loans made to companies in Latin America. Calvi, the bank’s chairman, was found dead days later.
Calvi’s coffin was taken from the family tomb in Drezzo,sealed with lead and loaded on to a hearse for the trip to a morgue in Milan.

“If it had been an explosion, neighbouring buildings would have been damaged but they are intact, including the windows,” he said.Franco Barberi, undersecretary of Civil Protection, said: “From the small quantity of debris, it seems the building simply folded in on itself.”Locals sought assurances that the cause was not geological subsidence that might put other homes at risk.The building dated from the 1950s when housing in Rome went up cheap and fast Restructuring work was underway in part of the block. “This is a district where they have built illegally without proper planning permission or respect for safety,” said an indignant elderly local. “And no one checks what the effect of this is on the building.”Local and central government have promised swift action. Firemen passed out buckets of debris and sniffer dogs nosed the rubble.The causes of the collapse are unclear. Initially a strong smell of gas fuelled reports of an explosion. But the fire service commander, Luigi Abate, said the smell was a consequence, not a cause, of the collapse.

Even after the lifeless bodies of his parents and two brothers were brought out Mr Fumatelli continued to dig.Others could only stare and sob as the orange bulldozers lifted off the concrete pillars and twisted metal. He, and neighbours in their pyjamas, began digging with their bare hands. It was as thought the earth had opened and swallowed it up.”One of the first to arrive was a fireman, Maurizio Fumatelli, whose family lived there. When the huge cloud of dust cleared there was just a gaping hole where the building once stood. Emergency workers recovered 16 corpses including three children One was just a few months old. Fifteen other people are unaccounted for.Renzo Rinaldi, an eyewitness, said: “There was a dull boom It was like a snowstorm, you couldn’t see anything. A FOUR-storey apartment block in Rome collapsed into a pile of dust and rubble early yesterday killing 16 people, and trapping more than 30 beneath the debris.