Macabre and mysterious discovery inside a cave on Etna, where the soldiers of the Alpine Rescue of the Financial Police of Nicolosi identified the remains of a man, apparently 50 years old, about one meter and seventy tall and with of congenital malformations of the nose and mouth.
According to the first tests, the death dates back to a period between the end of the seventies and the nineties.
The man would have voluntarily entered the cave, located in an area that is difficult to access. The hypothesis is that he was trapped. Violent causes of death excluded.
To identify the body was a dog under the Yellow Flames, which began to bark near the cave, leading the military inside.
The same military has spread the description of the clothes worn by the man: long dark pants, a light striped shirt, a light wool sweater, a black tie, a dark green nylon cape, a wool hat with pom-pom and some boots.
He had old lire coins in his pocket.
The Guardia di Finanza is now examining unresolved reports of missing persons from past years in an attempt to name the victim.
(Unioneonline / lf)