ANSA news agency reported the victim was sucked into the engine of a departing plane. while being chased by airport police.

ROME (AP) — The airport in the northern Italian city of Bergamo briefly suspended flights Tuesday due to a runway incident that local media said was apparently caused by someone running onto the tarmac and getting sucked into an airport engine.

An airport in Italy was temporarily closed after a man was reportedly sucked into a plane engine. The victim, identified by local media as Andrea Russo, 35, was neither a passenger nor an airport employee.