Tragedy in Val Scura in Santa Giustina. The rescue attempts were useless, the body brought downstream by the helicopter
SANTA GIUSTINA. Tragedy in Val Scura, in Santa Giustina, where an elderly man lost his life struck by a sudden illness while he was returning from an excursion to the church of San Mauro in the company of two friends. The attempts to revive him by the people present and the intervention of rescuers by land and with the Suem helicopter were unsuccessful.
The dramatic episode took place in the early afternoon in Val Scura, above Campel, an area popular with hikers and mountain bikers with the itinerary leading to the church of San Mauro. The picturesque church had been the destination of the walk of the small group of three people. Reaching the church, the three friends had taken the path again to begin the descent. And it was during the walk downstream that the man suffered a sudden heart attack.
The two friends who were with him tried to revive him and at the same time raised the alarm to 118. The Suem operations center in Pieve di Cadore triggered the mobilization: the emergency room ambulance and the men of the Alpine Rescue, while the helicopter started the engines from the base of operations. The race against time, however, was not lucky. The CNSAS team reached the group of friends by land while the helicopter reached the vertical of the point where they were, but the rescuers could not do anything more: the man’s heart had now stopped.
The air ambulance and the rescuers thus embarked the body of the hiker on the aircraft and transported it downstream, to San Vetor Veses, to entrust it to the funeral car, accompanying the two excursion companions shocked by the incident downstream. The carabinieri of the company of Feltre went to the task of fulfilling the ritual.