The son falls into the wine tank, the father tries to save him: both die
It happened in a cellar in the Bari area. Help is useless
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Tragedy in Gioia del Colle, in the province of Bari.
Giovanni and Filippo Colapinto, father and son aged 81 and 47, died on Monday evening, falling into the wine tank of a cellar, probably one in an attempt to save the other.
The bodies of the two were recovered by fire brigade divers, the rescue operations were complex.
According to the first reconstructions, the son was cleaning a cistern containing wine and would have fallen inside, perhaps because he was already stunned by the fumes. His father, in an attempt to save him, also fell. Both would die from the fumes.
On the spot, in addition to firefighters and carabinieri, also the prosecutor on duty Lanfranco Marazia of the Bari prosecutor's office and the coroner Francesco Vinci.
(Unioneonline/lf)
