Suspected food poisoning, mother and 15-year-old daughter die. The father was also hospitalized

A 15 year old girl, Sara Di Vita, and her mother Antonella Di Ielsi, aged 50, died in Campobasso within a few hours of each other. SI suspect poisoning due to food consumed during the Christmas holidays. In fact, the father of the 15-year-old also suffered some illnesses, but less serious ones. The girl died on Saturday evening after being admitted to the Cardarelli hospital in Campobasso. A few hours later his mother, Antonella Di Ielsi, aged 50, also died. For now, the father, he is hospitalized at Cardarelli but could be transferred to Rome, while another daughter, 18 years old, did not feel ill.

The woman, Antonella Di Ielsi, of Pietracatella, worked with her accountant husband, Gianni Di Vita, 55 years old, who was in the past a long-time mayor of the town. daughter, Sara Di Vita, he attended classical high school in the Molise capital.

From investigative sources it emerges that the members of Pietracatella’s family, before yesterday’s hospitalization, had gone twice to the emergency room of the Cardarelli hospital in Campobasso and were then immediately discharged diagnosed with food poisoning.

The the Campobasso prosecutor’s office ordered an autopsy on the two bodies. The Flying Squad of the Molise capital, led by Marco Graziano, is investigating the incident. The officers are currently carrying out a series of checks in the hospital and listening to people informed of the facts. Food poisoning linked to fish consumed during the holidays is suspected, but other hypotheses are not excluded at the moment and health investigations are underway to establish the causes of the tragedy.

«We are shocked, it is a tragedy that leaves us speechless – declared the mayor of Pietracatella Antonio Tommasone -. The country is in disbelief in the face of such a tragedy, I express my condolences and those of the entire community to the family.”