"I fought to hold back Mattia, but the force of the water tore him from my chest"
The painful story of Silvia Mereu, the woman of Sardinian origin overwhelmed with her son by a torrent in flood in the province of Ancona
The devastation in Ancona (Ansa)
“I struggled to hold him close to me after ditching my car. But there was that superhuman strength, that water that overwhelmed us, dragging us down and tore it away from my chest ” .
With these words full of pain Silvia Mereu, the pharmacist of Sardinian origin hit together with her 8-year-old son by the terrible flood of the Nevola stream, swollen after the hell of water that struck the Marche , recounted the dramatic moments experienced on the evening of last Thursday.
His words are reported by Repubblica. And arouse immense emotion.
The woman - daughter of Sardinian emigrants from Urzulei - is still hospitalized in Senigallia , where she was taken after being rescued.
The flood dragged her for over a kilometer , but the woman managed to find a foothold and was then rescued. The little one, however, was unable to resist the fury of water and mud and is missing.
(Unioneonline / lf)
