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An Albanian family was completely wiped out in Italy on February 5, 2026, after a carbon monoxide leak from their apartment's boiler. The four members of the Kola family were found dead in their home in the Pianna di Lucca area.
The victims are Arti Kola and his wife Jonida, as well as their two children, Hajdari, 22, and Jessica, 15. Italian authorities determined that the preliminary cause of death was carbon monoxide poisoning, produced by the apartment's boiler.
Ernest Çela, a close friend of Hajdar Kola and neighbor of the family, described the moments when he entered the apartment together with the young man's uncle, after being notified by the police.
According to Çela, the apartment door was forced open and the four bodies were found lying on the ground on the second floor. He stated that in the first moments, Hajdari and his father still had a pulse.
Çela said they tried to wake them up, but the situation quickly deteriorated and some of the people present showed signs of poisoning, forcing them to leave after about ten minutes. Hajdar's uncle lost consciousness, and was later transported for medical assistance and is out of danger.
"We didn't know about the boiler malfunction. When the police arrived, we went to the house, to the second floor... when we saw the four of them. We are neighbors. His uncle broke down the door, then we went to the second floor and there we saw the four of them on the ground. When we entered, we saw that they had a pulse, Darion and his father were alive. We tried everything we could to wake them up, until his uncle fainted. Then I also saw problems, and we went outside because we started to faint too. We stayed there for 10 minutes. We couldn't lift the bodies, because we didn't know what had happened. Their uncle's health condition is now out of danger for his life.
We have known Darion for years, we are all Albanians here. I had him as a neighbor for a year and a half. He was a very hardworking guy, he worked as an electrician. When they bought the house, they had been in the house for 6 months.
"Every weekend they were fixing up the house, they were proud of the step they had taken. They had the house as their goal. After the tragedy, the entire Albanian community came here, we were all shocked," he said in Top Story.
The neighbor's testimony refutes any prior knowledge of defects in the boiler. The family, according to him, had only been living in their new apartment for six months. Hajdari worked as an electrician and, together with his parents, were investing every weekend in fixing up the house, which they had set as the main family objective.
After the incident, the Albanian community in the area gathered near the apartment. The collective reaction reflected the extent of the shock and uncertainty that an invisible technical defect can cause in ordinary living conditions.
The event in Pianna di Lucca brings attention back to the technical control of heating systems in homes, a factor that in this case proved fatal for four members of the same family.
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