Vitor Silva’s body was found in the well on Tuesday morning after local authorities carried out searches during the night.
The well is located on a road directly facing a carpentry workshop where he was employed.
To start with GNR police opted to call in their divers to remove the body, but the PJ police later instructed the local firebrigade to carry out the gruesome task.
The alarm was raised by his wife, said to be a local hairdresser, after he failed to arrive home for lunch or go to work that day.
She posted a photo of Silva on social media in an appeal to help find him, Sul Informação
reported.
While it is not yet known how or why the man ended up in the well, newspaper Correio da Manhã said there were no initial indications of foul play being involved.