For about twenty minutes he remained hanging from the barrier of the level crossing of the Turin-Ceres railway.
It happened in Nole Canavese, at the level crossing in via San Vito, and the protagonist is a 13-year-old boy.
Suspended about six meters high while his companions and people in the street shouted at him to hold on and not give up.
Local police officers saved him. They placed the school bus under the barrier, climbed onto the roof of the bus and handed the teenager a ladder.
The 13-year-old, visibly frightened, unhooked himself and managed to get off. He was then visited by the doctors, accompanied to the local police headquarters and entrusted to his parents. He sustained no injuries.
According to his story, he was near the level crossing when the barrier rose and hooked him by the jacket, dragging him upwards. Investigations are underway by the local police, who want to get to the bottom of this story that has already unleashed social network users, divided equally between those who believe the boy's version and those who are convinced it is a stunt that could have cost expensive and which caused a temporary blockage of the railway line.
(Unioneonline/L)