A 17-year-old boy has di£d on a beach after being buried alive in a hole in the sand.
The teenager, knowns as Riccardo B., suffocated to de@th after the sand from a tunnel he had built collapsed on him on a beach in north west Italy.
A swimmer who was nearby at the time of the incident told local news: “He had built a tunnel. He wanted to enter from one side and exit from the other.
“But as he passed through, when he reached the centre, everything collapsed and the hole was completely covered.
“You couldn’t see anything anymore; you could have walked right through it and not noticed a thing.”
Another local added that there were no screams or sounds as the boy was buried “in a matter of moments”.
