A 15-year-old falls into the purification tank. The sucking is fatal to him
Tragic end for a 15-year-old boy from Castellanza, in the province of Varese. A football match with a friend becomes a drama. The ball – reads the Messenger – unfortunately ends up in a purification tank of a textile dyeing plant and the attempt to recover it costs the young man his life. Niang, of foreign origin, slipped into the very large and functioning purification basin. The boy leaned over the water to try to retrieve the ball but lost his balance and fell.
Niang – continues the Messenger – approached the artificial body of water, probably convinced that he would be able to retrieve the ball, but he fell and fell to the bottom of the pool, from which he no longer emerged, probably due to the suction and the tank current always active. Immediate request for help from the mother and those present, overwhelmed by desperation for not being able to do anything to turn off the system, or to help the boy. The fire brigade divers and 118 intervened on the spot. Recovered at the end of his life, the fifteen-year-old arrived at the hospital in Legnano (Milan) in desperate conditions and, despite the doctors’ attempts, did not make it.