A 61-year-old woman, Caterina Mariani , was hit this morning in Alghero by a heavy vehicle , a crane with a telescopic basket that was passing through Piazza Sulis.
The woman, a school assistant at the nearby classical high school, died instantly . Local police officers, firefighters and carabinieri intervened on site.
The vehicle was seized while the woman's body was transferred to the Institute of Forensic Medicine.
