The construction site in Figu Niedda has stopped as a sign of respect. Just over a week after the tragedy on Provincial Road 27, which killed Ahmed Tafrih, Mohamed Rizk, and Hamouda Thamer, three Egyptian carpenters who were working as piece workers in the town's canal , structural work (the final phase of post-flood work) will resume tomorrow.
On the reinforced concrete wall, no one dared move the protective helmets used by the North African workers from Pavia. They had left them hanging the Friday before the tragedy, agreeing to meet the other workers the following Monday. They couldn't have known that on the Sothai Bridge they would meet death.
The helmet of their colleague, who was supposed to get in his Volkswagen Golf on November 30th to go shopping in Tortolì, also remained hanging on the Figu Niedda wall. At the last minute, he decided to stay home while waiting for a call from his family in Egypt. It was the life-saving call.
The bodies of the three carpenters, after undergoing an autopsy at the request of prosecutor Valentina Vitolo, left the island yesterday aboard a ferry from Porto Torres. They reached Milan-Malpensa Airport and from there will be repatriated to Cairo for burial.
