Another tragedy in the waters of the Piave River , which on summer days in the Treviso area becomes a destination for those who want to cool off, but unfortunately not without danger. And today a day that was supposed to be one of leisure and relaxation turned into tragedy : shortly after 5 pm a young Venezuelan, resident in the Pordenone area, who was on a small beach on the Fagarè embankment (Treviso) with some friends, dived into the river together with a friend, and shortly after disappeared from the sight of his other companions.
A girl in the group immediately raised the alarm, calling 112 for the Carabinieri. In the excitement, however, she feared that the second one had also disappeared under water and so the first indication given was that of two young people missing in the Piave. "They went swimming and never came back," she reported to the rescuers.
The military and firefighters arrived immediately, while a helicopter began flying over the stretch of river between San Biagio di Callalta and Ponte di Piave. In the meantime, the second boy, unseen by the others, had managed to reach the shore, safe and sound, and had gone towards the group of friends. The firefighters did not take long to recover the body of the 21-year-old: lying on the bottom, a few meters from the shore. They located him under the railway bridge of San Biagio di Callalta.
Only 3 years ago, on June 20, 2022, two other very young people, aged 14 and 18, drowned while bathing in the same stretch of river: in that case the two friends were swept away by the current, and their bodies found a kilometer downstream. A script similar to today's.
(Online Union)
