It was a motorist who gave the alert shortly after 10 p.m.

The firefighters intervened on Saturday evening in the Beaulieu district on the island of Nantes after the discovery of a body lying on the public road, we learned from the Loire-Atlantique departmental fire and rescue service.

Despite the intervention of the emergency services, the victim, a 40-year-old man, could not be revived.

According to the firefighters, he would have died following “a probable collision with a vehicle which fled”.

Presse-Océan

specifies that the forties presented several open wounds on the level of the right arm and on the legs.

The police, accompanied by forensic identification technicians, went on site to make the first findings.

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