The bodies of Susanna Recchia , 45, and her three-year-old daughter , both missing from their home in Miane, in the Treviso area , since Friday evening, have been found.

The discovery, as confirmed by the Veneto councilor for Civil Protection Giampaolo Bottacin, was made on a small island in the Piave River downstream from the Vidor bridge.

The police, civil protection volunteers and firefighters are operating on site.

A helicopter , marine firefighting teams , drones and sniffer dogs are also being used.

According to the reconstruction of the police, the woman entered the Piave, not by throwing herself from the bridge, but by sliding, already on Friday evening, from a river bank where the last traces were identified by molecular dogs. Then the watercourse dragged the bodies to the islet about a kilometer downstream, where they were found embraced .

The Treviso prosecutor Barbara Sabbatini is investigating the case and will decide in the next few hours whether or not to proceed with autopsies.

Susanna, a dental hygienist by profession, had three children from a previous relationship in addition to her three-year-old daughter.

Neighbors describe her as a very reserved woman with very few friends .

Even from the story of her ex-partner, the child's father, it emerges that she had never behaved in a way that would have led one to think about what happened later. Even though - the ex-partner reports - the separation itself had caused a sort of discomfort and disorientation in Susanna.

(Unioneonline/vl)

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