The research in Lucca ended with a dramatic epilogue Roberto Tonfonithe elder of 82 years of Borgo a Buggiano missing since last Sunday (June 23), after leaving his car to go to the pharmacy. From that moment on, all traces of him were lost, until yesterday morning when his car, a Peugeot Bipper in the minivan version, was found in a rather inaccessible mountain location in the municipal area of Villa Basilicanear Pariana.
Car of missing elderly man found: Searches in the mountains of Villa Basilica
Here they were concentrated researchcoordinates come on firefighters and police and in which they participated civil protection men but also volunteers from Anpana Lucca with canine units and molecular dogs. This morning (30 June) around 8am the now lifeless body of the 82-year-old was found by the teams involved in the operation.
According to what we have learned, the elderly he slipped and fell down a slope and ended up in a stream, perhaps due to an accident or illness and was dragged by the current. The body was held back by some brambles, in a very impervious and inaccessible area. For this reason, the firefighters had to intervene for the recovery with Saf techniques, who found the man’s body several meters further down the valley.
Was it was necessary to clear the area to reach the man’s body and to recover it the Drago 57 helicopter of the firefighters stationed in Arezzo was also activated. The recovery operation ended around 2:30 pm.
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According to initial investigations, the elderly man may have been dead for a few days. Having fallen for reasons yet to be understood down a slope, he would have ended up in the watercourse, perhaps carried by the current. At the moment, the reasons that pushed Tonfoni to reach the Pariana woods and enter the vegetation remain a mystery. Investigators think he fell following an accident or perhaps due to an illness.
The turning point came yesterday (June 29) when a resident of Pariana had reported an abandoned car in a rugged area on the edge of the woods, alerting the Carabinieri. The military of the Villa Basilica station They immediately went to the place and verified that the Peugeot was owned by the missing pensioner.
The procedure adopted in cases of missing persons was immediately activated. The police were then alerted the firefighters who set up a mobile base in the area and organized the search. And since yesterday the woods near the place where the car was found have been scoured. This morning the discovery of the body of the elderly man, whose disappearance was also covered by the Rai3 TV program Who saw him?
