A 62-year-old woman died of
cardiac arrest caused by shock after a cement stone hit the car
she was riding in along with four other people near Cernusco sul
Naviglio near Milan just before midnight Thursday.
The stone was thrown by person or persons unknown from an
embankment beside the provincial highway 121, and smashed
through the car's windshield.
The woman immediately had a bad turn and then suffered
cardiac arrest, police said.
Carabinieri are investigating.
The woman was named as Nilde Caldarini.
She had been returning from a religious trip at Pontirolo
Nuovo near Bergamo to her home in Cernusco sul Naviglio.
The embankment, about five metres high, runs alongside the
road.
According to residents it was built recently to protect a
dozen new condos.
Police said it was highly unlikely that the stone fell by
itself.
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