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One day on the beach he became tragic when a 17 -year -old boy was killed after a sand tunnel that was abruptly duging, burying him alive.
The teenager, identified as Riccardo Boni by several Italian media, was on vacation in Montalto di Castro, Italy, with his family when the incident occurred on Thursday, July 10.
Boni's family was staying in a resort in Montalto Di Castro, approximately 70 miles north of Rome. The collapse occurred around 3:00 pm local time while he was on the beach with his father and his brothers.
According to the local exit Corriere della willRiccardo Boni and his younger brothers had approached the coast, where they began to dig a large hole that, according to the reports, had almost five feet deep, in a more isolated area of the beach. Meanwhile, his father was close, sleeping under an umbrella of the beach.
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An aerial view shows Lido de Ostia, Roma's Seaside, with closed private beaches for the winter season, on November 10, 2024. (Photo by Andrea Bernardi / AFP) (Photo by Andrea Bernardi / AFP through Getty Images)
Suddenly, the walls of the tunnel yielded, catching the teenager under the sand, the exit reported.
The boy remained buried until his father woke up and realized that his eldest son was missing. One of his brothers shouted: “Riccardo is under the sand,” according to The sun. The brothers pointed out the location of the collapsed tunnel, which led their father and the beach spectators to the excavation and cava frantically in search of him.
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A view of a beach in Cinque Terre, Liguria, Italy, on July 27, 2024. (Photo by Gian Marco Benedetto/Anadolu through Getty Images)
Tragically, the child was found buried in the sand, without responding and showed no signs of life. The first to respond came in a matter of minutes, including an air ambulance, working to relive it, but it was too late, and the child could not be saved, the outlet reported.
“Nobody realized what had happened,” Lieutenant Daniele Sectionan, Carabinie officer leading police investigation, told The Sun.
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The children dig a hole on a beach while people walk. (Amy Beth Bennett/South Florida Sentinel/Tribune News Service through Getty Images)
“They lost a lot of time because they couldn't see it. When they realized that I was missing, they started looking for him, but it was too late,” he continued.
A witness at the beach told him Corriere della Serra that “nobody on the beach had heard the teenager shout because he was completely buried in a matter of minutes.”
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Since then, a police investigation “against unknown people” has been opened in relation to the fatal accident, the exit added, since the authorities consider whether an autopsy will be required.
“I have talked to colleagues, and we have never heard of something like this that happened before in Italy,” said Tramontana. “We treat with terrible situations all the time, but we cannot imagine how a game on the beach ended in this way.”
Stepheny Price is a writer of Fox News Digital and Fox Business. She covers issues that include missing persons, homicides, national cases of crimes, illegal immigration and more. The advice and ideas of history can be sent to [email protected]
