A 60-year-old Italian volunteer who worked for the Pentalux NGO, Tonino Tonial, has died in Burkina Faso, West Africa.
The cause of death has not been determined yet and no signs of violence have been found on his body, according to reports on Friday.
News of Tonial's death emerged on Thursday, when the association he worked for, which delivers aid from the north-eastern region of Friuli-Venezia Giulia to Africa, alerted the volunteer's family.
Italy's embassy in the Ivory Coast and the consulate in Burkina Faso confirmed the news.
The circumstances of Tonial's death are still unclear.
Tonial, a pensioner, was living in the African country after marrying a Burkina Faso national.
He had been working over the last decade as a volunteer for Pentalux, which has projects in Burkina Faso and in Algeria, for the Saharawi population.
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