Overview
- Firefighters are leading an ongoing multi‑agency search with divers, river teams, drones, helicopters, and the Coast Guard along the Trigno’s banks and riverbed at Montenero di Bisaccia on the Abruzzo–Molise border.
- Rescuers have located only the license plate and pieces of the missing man’s car, so teams are focusing downstream and at the river’s mouth where strong currents may have carried debris into the sea.
- The missing driver is 53‑year‑old fisherman Domenico Racanati of Bisceglie, who was driving on Strada Statale 16 when the bridge gave way and whose phone call with his wife cut off during the collapse.
- Il Post reports that ANAS says the road was closed with barriers and signs, and that two cars were on the span when it failed, with one reaching the opposite bank and the other going down with the structure.
- The collapse followed several days of severe rain in Abruzzo and Molise that swelled the Trigno, though the exact cause remains under investigation.