International media reports claim that Rome prosecutors have opened an investigation into an alleged homicide over the case of five Italians who died while scuba diving in a cave in the Maldives last week.
Five Italian divers went missing last Thursday after they set off to explore 60-meter deep underwater caves in Vaavu Atoll. The body of one of the divers was found on the same day, but four remained missing till last Monday when a Finnish team of cave diving experts joined the local authorities in the search operation.
Tragically, before that, a Maldivian military diver lost his life during the search operation.
Yesterday, the bodies of two out of the four victims were retrieved and sent back to the capital Male'.
Reports said that the investigators in the Italian capital will order autopsies to be performed on the bodies of the five when they are brought back to Italy.
They will also question the Italian people who were on board the 'Duke of York', the safari boat that the five dived from.
