Twelve people, seven minors and five adults, were taken to hospital for treatment after being hurt when a stairway collapsed at the Globe Theatre in Rome's Villa Borghese park on Thursday.
Fire brigade sources said the stairway gave way as people were on their way out after a show for school pupils.
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Rome Mayor Roberto Gualtieri said he had been in contact with the management of the theatre, a reconstruction of the London theatre of Shakespeare's company, and was told that maintenance work had been done on the stairway in question this summer.
He said the Globe would be closed and it was not certain when it would reopen.
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