French tourist throws herself into the stream in Lugano to save her dog and dies, she was 34 years old

He died in Lecco hospital on tourist 34 year old Frenchman, recovered this morning about ten meters deep in Lake Lugano in Porlezza (Como) after ending up in a stream to recover the dog. The patient’s condition was desperate: the fire brigade divers had brought him back to shore in cardiac arrest and hypothermia. Transported by helicopter to Lecco, he died a few hours later. The tragedy occurred in a campsite that runs along the Cuccio stream, which descends from the mountains of Val Cavargna, where it snowed recently, and which is therefore full of freezing water. The tourist tried to recover the dog, but the current dragged him into Lake Lugano.

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What happened

The tourist’s dog ended up in the icy waters of the Cuccio stream, and the man jumped. Both were sucked into the current and never resurfaced.

The witness

A witness, who also tried to intervene, raised the alarm: the fire brigade divers recovered the tourist who was still alive. Rescuers transported him by helicopter in very serious conditions to Lecco hospital. Then, death.

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