Overview

• On July 10 around 3 PM, the teenager and his two younger brothers dug a 1.5-meter-deep hole at a Montalto di Castro beach before the sand gave way.
• Emergency responders reached the site and took 40 minutes to extricate him from the debris but were unable to revive him.
• Sand holes exceeding one meter deep are structurally unstable and can collapse without warning.
• The family was on holiday at a campsite roughly 100 kilometers north of Rome.
• Previous incidents of sand pit collapses have prompted safety advisories at seaside resorts.