A hotel in the center of Rome had to be evacuated and at least eight people were poisoned, one of them serious, due to gases derived from the chlorine that was in the spy area. Five of the intoxicated, all employees of the Barberini hotel, They were taken to the hospitalone of them is in a serious condition, and the other three, with mild symptoms, were medicated outside the building.

The firefighters verified that the intoxicated people were victims of the fumes attributable to chlorine found in the technical room of the espa on the ground floor of the hotel and therefore They ordered a total evacuation to carry out cleaning and adequate controls.

Many of the hotel guests claimed to have suffered “burning eyes and difficulty breathing“in the moments after the poisoning, the Italian police reported. In addition, to guarantee the safety of the area, the streets near the establishment, in the heart of Rome, have been closed.