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May 21, 2020 The 17-year-old who was dispersed in the Idice torrent was found dead, in Mercatale di Ozzano Emilia, in the Bolognese area. The lifeless body was found by the rescuers in the same spot where he had disappeared while bathing, and where some witnesses saw a reel pulling the boy underwater. 

The victim is an Italian citizen of African origin, he has parents in Germany and in these days he was hosted at the home of his grandparents in Ozzano Emilia. According to what the Carabinieri of the Compagnia di San Lazzaro reconstructed, intervened for the reliefs of the accident, the 17 year old had reached the stream in the company of other boys, younger than him, who saw him disappear underwater in a reel while doing the bathroom.

One of the friends tried to help him by pulling him afloat, but he failed. After the alarm was raised, it was the firefighters' divers who identified and brought the young man back to the surface, but attempts to revive the 118 health workers were unsuccessful.