Double tragedy in the Valle del Bove of Etna , where this afternoon a sixty-year-old hiker and a 17-year-old boy died after falling 100 metres down a cliff.

Both of them, involved in two separate accidents, were taken to the emergency room of the Cannizzaro hospital in Catania. The 60-year-old arrived already deceased , while the minor was admitted to the intensive care unit where he died a few hours later.

The firefighters intervened on site to provide rescue and assistance, also with a helicopter from the base in the Etna capital.

Also hospitalized in the same hospital is a 16-year-old girl from Messina who, in another accident, overturned while skiing on Mount Etna : she entered the emergency room with a red code, but is not considered to be in serious condition.

(Online Union)

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