(ANSA) - LIMA, SEPTEMBER 17 - The Peruvian police announced that a team of rescuers yesterday found a body in the province of Urubamba which is almost certainly that of Alberto Fedele, the 30-year-old aid worker originally from the province of Pavia, who disappeared on 4 July last. after leaving for an excursion to a lagoon at 4,800 meters.
In a communication to the media, the police indicated that "the inert body of the young man was located after an arduous search on one side of the Juchuyccocha lagoon, in the Chicòn sector of the province of Urubamba".
On the day of his disappearance, Fedele, who was operating in Cusco with the NGO We World, had left alone before dawn without any special equipment, and with a mobile phone which he could not reach also due to lack of camp.
The definitive answer on the identity of the corpse, it is infinitely learned, will come from the completion of the autopsy scheduled for the next few hours.
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