The death toll was standing at three until the body of an elderly woman was extracted from the rubble overnight.

The woman’s two grandchildren, a four-year-old girl and a six-year-old boy, died with their mother in the disaster.

It was initially reported that the body of the grandmother had been pulled out of the rubble on Sunday, but it subsequently emerged that that corpse belonged to the mother.

The children’s father and their two-year-old brother were pulled out of the rubble alive.

The father is in a critical condition in hospital while the boy is not in a life-threatening condition, sources said.

It is suspected that the explosion of a gas cylinder caused the building to collapse.

ANSA