Teen dies after the sand tunnel collapse at the popular Italian beach station

A day at the beach became tragic when a 17 -year -old boy was killed after a sand tunnel, he dug abruptly, buried him alive.

The teenager, identified as Riccardo Boni by several Italian media, was on vacation in Montalto Di Castro, Italy, with his family when the incident occurred on Thursday, July 10.

The Boni family stayed in a seaside resort in Montalto Di Castro, about 70 miles north of Rome. The collapse occurred around 3:00 p.m. local time while he was on the beach with his father and his brothers and sisters.

According to the local point of sale Corriere della will be,, Riccardo Boni and his young brothers and sisters got closer to the shore, where they started to dig a large hole that would have almost five feet deep, in a more isolated area of the beach. Meanwhile, their father was nearby, drowsiness under a beach umbrella.

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Suddenly, the walls of the tunnel gave in, trapping the teenager under the sand, the catch reported.

The boy remained buried until his father wakes up and realized that his eldest son was missing. One of his brothers shouted: “Riccardo is under the sand”, ” according to The sun. The brothers and sisters highlighted the location of the collapsed tunnel, encouraging their father and beach enthusiasts nearby to rush and widen frantically in search of him.

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Tragically, the boy was found buried in the sand, insensitive and showing no sign of life. The first speakers arrived in a few minutes, including an air ambulance, working to revive it, but it was too late and the boy could not be saved, reported the point of sale.

“No one realized what had happened,” said Lieutenant Daniele Tramontana, the carabiniere officer conducting the police investigation, at Sun.

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“They lost a lot of time because they couldn’t see him. When they realized that they were missing, they started looking for it but it was too late,” he continued.

A witness on the beach said Corriere della Serra This “person on the beach had heard the teenager screaming because he was completely buried in a few minutes.”

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A police investigation has since been opened “against unknown persons” since the fatal accident, added the point of sale, while the authorities examine if an autopsy will be necessary.

“I spoke to colleagues, and we have never heard of something like that before in Italy,” said Tramontana. “We are dealing with terrible situations all the time, but we cannot imagine how a game on the beach found itself in this way.”

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