The Natisone tragedy: who are the three missing boys

The river that rises and leaves no escape, the impotence of the rescuers trying to throw a rope while lowering a crane from the Roman Bridge, the boys hugging each other and being overwhelmed by the flood.

Hopes of finding the three friends alive are dwindling who yesterday in the early afternoon were surprised by the sudden flood of the Natisone in Premariacco, in the province of Udine. This morning the searches resumed and, from the analysis of the drone, a cell phone signal emerged. The Udine firefighters are in action together with the helicopter of the Venice Flight Department and river specialists and divers. The entire area from the pebble beach, where there is an absolute ban on bathing, is being scoured.

Who are the three boys

Embraced in a gesture of resistance against the current. Who are the three missing boys? It's about Patrizia Cormos 21 years old, resident in Campoformido (Udine), born in Colleferro (Rome) and student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Udine. The other girl, Bianca Doros 23 years old, she had instead arrived three days ago from Romania to visit her parents who live in Udine. With her her boyfriend Cristian Casian Molnar, 25 who lives in Austria but is domiciled in Udine.

According to reports Il Messaggero Veneto the three twenty-year-olds on Friday they had arrived on the banks of the Natisone to take a walk and celebrate the end of Patrizia's exams, enrolled in the second year of the degree course in «Interior design and architecture». Patrizia's mother he had advised against going to the small beach on the Natisone river, under the Roman Bridge of Premariacco. “I suggested she not go because she was tired,” Patrizia's mother told al Veneto Messenger «The evening before she had also gone to work. But then she told me “Come on, don't get angry, let me go” and so, in the end, I told her “Okay love, go””

Bathing prohibition

In However, there is an absolute ban on bathing on that little beach because the danger is linked to sudden floods of the river and the fact that after the Roman bridge the water passes through treacherous gorges and progressively increases the speed between the rocks. The exact dynamics of what happened yesterday around 1pm after the storm. The water level of the Natisone rose in a few minutes, surprising the three friends who immediately called for help. But the water quickly rose from ankles to knees. The three friends then hugged each other trying to gain stability against the pressure of the water. Until the flood wave overwhelmed them while the firefighters – from the top of the bridge – had set up a mobile crane and tried to tighten the ropes.