Siliqua, race against time to find a boy dragged by car by the flooding torrent

Race against time to find a missing boy in Siliqua in the Monte Arcosu area, caught in the night by bad weather together with a group of friends .

The prefecture of Cagliari also activated the Alpine and Speleological Rescue and 25 technicians from the Cagliari, Iglesias and Medio Campidano stations intervened on site .

The young man was part of a group of eight people who were traveling on different off-road vehicles along a country road inside the nature reserve . When it came to crossing a ford, one of the vehicles, a Jeep Renegade, was swept off the road by the current . The other three friends managed to reach a shelter, five of them found themselves in difficulty and sent a request for help to the Civil Protection of Rome, communicating the GPS coordinates of their position.

They were rescued by the firefighters: two were on foot inside the Oasi del Cervo, two others were stuck in a torrent inside an off-road vehicle. One, unfortunately, is still missing, on board a Jeep Renegade, he was dragged by the torrent's flood. The firefighters' divers also intervened on site and two helicopters were activated, one from the Firefighters departed from Alghero and the "Fiamma" of the Carabinieri .

The operations are proving to be very complicated , both due to the lack of road access due to the passage of water and the presence of debris. All things that hinder the non-stop work of rescuers.

(Unioneonline/L)