American tourists who are impaled on Rome's Colosseum fence: Report

According to reports, dozens of witnesses looked horrified when a US tourist who visited Rome screamed from pain after pushing himself up on a metal fence in the Colosseum.

The man-a 47-year-old American citizen who stabbed the spine in Taiwan when he tried to climb over the fence of the historical monument. According to the Italian newspaper IL Messaggero, he may have tried to have a better view.

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As a tourist, spectators who saw the terrible event called for help that stuck on the fence until he lost consciousness. The law enforcement authorities and paramedics quickly arrived at the scene, but they took more than 20 minutes to remove it from the fence, IL Messaggero reported.

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A vaulted window in the Colosseum can be seen behind a metal fence. (Getty Images)

Once freed, the tourist was immediately brought to the emergency room, where doctors carried out an operation. The wound of the lower back of the man was closed with more than 80 stitches, and it was taken to the hospital in serious condition, the outlet reported.

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The non -identified man, who could not speak for hours after the incident – was on vacation with family and friends and was only in Rome for a few days, IL Messaggero reported.

Criminal prosecution authorities and paramedics quickly arrived at the scene, reported IL Messaggero. (Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The terrible incident occurred less than a week after Pope Francis had been rested in Rome Santa Maria Maggiore. According to the Vatican, the funeral ceremony on April 26 in the basilica of St. Peter moved more than 250,000 mourners from all over the world to the country's capital.

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