Illness while cutting a tree: overwhelmed and killed by the trunk in San Giovanni Suergiu
Accident in the garden of a house in Matzaccara: the victim, Antonio Serra, was 65 years old
He felt ill while pruning a tree in his garden and a freshly cut trunk overwhelmed him, killing him.
The drama occurred late this morning in Matzaccara, a hamlet of San Giovanni Suergiu .
The victim is a sixty-five year old, Antonio Serra : according to initial information, he was pruning the tree when he suffered a heart attack. It is not known whether he fainted just as he was cutting a part of the plant, the fact is that a large trunk overwhelmed him.
The firefighters, the carabinieri and 118 intervened on the spot, called by the family members (the air ambulance also took off) but by now there was nothing left to do.
At the moment it was not possible to establish whether the man died of the heart attack or was killed by the log that fell on him.
(Unioneonline)
