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Video of American drowned saving son shocks Italy


    ROME (Reuters) - An amateur video of an American woman who died saving her son when they were hit by a freak wave shocked Italy on Sunday. The mobile phone footage shows the woman, identified by local police as 49-year-old Anne Sharrie Duncan, standing with her son and a friend on a pier in the southern Italian resort of Positano when they are hit by the wave late on Saturday.

    The American, who police say lived in nearby Naples with her husband, was shown being swept into the sea with the 12-year-old boy, according to the few seconds of footage widely played on Italian media.

    Witnesses said the woman was then subsequently able to push her son towards rescuers before she was carried away by the current, local media reported.

    The boy, who was rushed to a local medical centre, was reportedly unharmed but in a state of shock.