The funeral of Manuela Spargi, the 56-year-old from Milan who died a few days ago after her car ended up in Lake Como, was not celebrated yesterday because the hearse never arrived at the church in Milan.
Added to the dismay of the victim's relatives, waiting in the church, was the concern of the relatives of the funeral director in Milan who, unable to contact their loved one, raised the alarm to the Lecco police and the police. fire from the provincial command of Sondrio.
Late in the evening it was discovered that the hearse that left Colico with the body, instead of taking the highway 36 to reach Milan as it should have, had ended up on a mountain road and was stuck in the snow at the Dordona pass, in the Sondrio area.
The driver had left the vehicle to seek help and was then found and helped by the Alpine Rescue volunteers of the VII Delegation of Valtellina and Valchiavenna: he was almost frozen to death.
Today the firefighters of the provincial command of Sondrio reached the hearse with the carabinieri to bring the vehicle back to the valley with the coffin inside, which had remained abandoned for several hours in the snowstorm in the woods of the Orobie Alps , in Valtellina.
(Unioneonline/D)
