The body of a pensioner from Carloforte was found today at sea in front of the Conchette , a locality on the island of San Pietro.
The man had gone out for a canoe ride around 10.30 in the morning , his tracks had been lost for hours. Since he was late in returning to shore, the alarm was raised.
Immediately it was thought that the pensioner could be in difficulty and the Coast Guard patrol boats looked for him in the water, while the Civil Protection started the searches on land, in the hope that the man had chosen a landing point other than that from which he had left.
After an hour , the discovery of the body, on the shallow water a few meters from the coast . The body, after the formal investigations and the authorization of the Public Prosecutor of Cagliari, was returned to the family.
(Unioneonline / L)
