He showed his service pistol to a friend, but while the woman was handling it, a shot suddenly went off, hitting him in the chest. After the alarm, the rush to hospital and an emergency operation, but the doctors' attempts were in vain: thus, at the age of 22, a police officer from Mortara, in the province of Pavia, died.
The tragic accident occurred in a house in Gropello Cairoli, another municipality in the Pavia area.
According to an initial reconstruction by the police, the young policeman would have allowed his friend to hold the weapon, but something went wrong. The bullet that exploded by mistake reached him and seriously injured him and the 22-year-old arrived by ambulance at the San Matteo Polyclinic in Pavia in now critical conditions. Subjected to desperate surgery, unfortunately he did not survive.
An investigation has been opened into the incident.
(Unioneonline/lf)
