A 65-year-old worker
died in a workplace accident at San Benedetto del Tronto in
Marche on Tuesday.
The man was working on an underground water pipe when he fell
into the hole and was engulfed in earth, local sources said.
Unfavourable conditions prevented him from being treated on
the spot, sources said.
He was taken to a local hospital where he died shortly after
being admitted.
The man was close to retiring, sources said.
Police are at the scene trying to reconstruct the dynamics of
what happened.
An autopsy has been ordered.
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