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Roof Collapse at a Church in Locarno

When
1863
Where
Unnamed church in Locarno
Part of
Roof collapse at Sant'Antonio Church, Locarno

Snow on the roof caused the vault to collapse, killing 40 people in 1863.

In 1863, snow accumulating on the roof of a church in Locarno led to the collapse of the vault. This structural failure resulted in the death of 40 individuals. The event occurred in Locarno, which was the capital of the canton at the time. The supplied passages do not name the church; the name Sant'Antonio appears only in unverified legacy metadata.

Sources

  1. Locarno Wikipedia, revision of 2026-10-05

Machine-drafted from the cited Wikipedia passages and checked by a reviewing model, not by a human editor. Every passage cites the revision it was written from; dates and places follow those passages.