President Sergio Mattarella and
Premier Giuseppe Conte led the tributes to a hero Coast Guard
officer, Aurelio Visalli, who drowned in the sea near Milazzo in
Sicily on Saturday after diving in to save two teenagers.
Conte said the death of the 40-year-old "united the country in
profound pain".
Mattarella sent a massage of condolences to the officer's family
and said he was extremely upset by the "tragic death".
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