[conservative in nyc]

Babelfish English Translation of an article in the Milan daily, Corriere della Sera:

It is happened in via Lomellina
It collapses a palace to Milan, victims
The building is reduced in ruins after an outbreak. Various means of aid are directed on the place. Two would be died

MILAN - a mansion of four plans is collapsed in the evening of monday as a result of an outbreak happened in the zone orients them of Milan, probably because of a gas escape. The temporary balance sheet of two would be died and some tens of the wounded. Various means of aid between which many ambulances they are on the place of the outbreak. "there are of the victims", has confirmed one source of the police. The residential building, in via Lomellina 7, is reduced in ruins. The wall that shows oneself not on the road is more.
HURT - the gas escape would have been originated in an apartment to the second or the third plan of the mansion. According to the esteem of the National Fire Departments, under the ruins they could to you approximately 50 it are hurt. The outbreak has been heard distinguished to the 19.59. To that hour the storees of the zone are already sluices. The explosion has provoked damages to many display windows.

TESTIMONY - "the building of quattro-cinque plans sventrato and of the two storees to the flat earth, one completely is destroyed", has said a witness on the place. "In that it remains of according to plan a strong fire is developed" has added.
18 september 2006

http://www.corriere.it/Primo_Piano/Cronache/2006/09_Settembre/18/palazzo.shtml

[unspun]

God bless 'em all.

[conservative in nyc]

Here's their picture of the relevant stree,from the Corriere website:

[oldleft]

TESTIMONY - "the building of quattro-cinque plans sventrato and of the two storees to the flat earth, one completely is destroyed", has said a witness on the place. "In that it remains of according to plan a strong fire is developed" has added.

Gotta love Babelfish!

[MadeInAmerica]

MILAN - a mansion of four plans is collapsed in the evening of monday as a result of an outbreak happened in the zone orients them of Milan, probably because of a gas escape. The temporary balance sheet of two would be died and some tens of the wounded. Various means of aid between which many ambulances they are on the place of the outbreak. "there are of the victims", has confirmed one source of the police. The residential building, in via Lomellina 7, is reduced in ruins. The wall that shows oneself not on the road is more.
HURT - the gas escape would have been originated in an apartment to the second or the third plan of the mansion. According to the esteem of the National Fire Departments, under the ruins they could to you approximately 50 it are hurt. The outbreak has been heard distinguished to the 19.59. To that hour the storees of the zone are already sluices. The explosion has provoked damages to many display windows.

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Who writes this crap? The EXPLOSION has PROVOKED damages? What happened, did the explosion tease all the display windows?

[Robe]

Babelfish hurts my eyes and gives me a headace

[Fudd Fan]

Oh, well THAT's clear now.

[CougarGA7]

That translation reads like an instruction manual on a Tiawanese product.

Hope that death toll stays at 2.

[Red Badger]

Sounds perfectly Italian to me!........

[Izzy Dunne]

a mansion of four plans is collapsed in the evening of monday as a result of an outbreak happened in the zone orients them of Milan

Sometimes BabbleFish is more trouble than it's worth...
the building of quattro-cinque plans

I make that out as 45 stories - is that right?

[Verginius Rufus]

Four piani = four floors. It says one of the victims was Albanian and the other a 69-year-old man.