Salvatore Masia , the 55-year-old originally from Tempio Pausania, died of asphyxiation and ended up inside a manhole upside down in Padua, where he had been working for some time as a social welfare worker. This is confirmed by the autopsy examination on the corpse.
The facts date back to the night of 12 October: Masia, according to a reconstruction, was returning home after spending the evening with a friend.
Walking would have lost something, perhaps a set of keys, fallen into the manhole. Then he lifted the heavy cast iron lid and stuck into the hole first with one arm, then with his head. But he was unable to get up, he lost his balance by sliding for more than a meter into the cockpit, with his face that ended up inside the mud about fifty centimeters high.
So, upside down and now a corpse, he was found by a vigilante who was passing by in a service car.
The autopsy confirmed that asphyxia killed him, with pulmonary and cerebral edema. On the body also some bruises on the hips, head and back, compatible with the reconstruction of the police.
(Unioneonline / D)
