Fatal Flooding Tragedy in Valentín Alsina: Man Dies from Electrocution in AMBA Storms

2024-03-14 20:44:15
A man died in Valentín Alsina due to floods

In the midst of the storm that hit the AMBA, on Tuesday morning a neighbor of Valentín Alsina, Lanús district, filmed a corpse floating in the street. The next day, after performing an autopsy on the deceased man in the Ezpeleta morgue, Justice determined that he was electrocuted. Later, they contacted his family to share the sad news.

“The brother was located,” sources from the investigation explained to Infobae.

Although they did not reveal the identity of the victim, those same sources consulted by this medium confirmed that the man with a goatee beard, dressed in clothing and sports shoes, who was rescued by the Lanús Volunteer Firefighters, was 45 years old and was a person in a street situation.

The investigation led by the Fiscal Instruction Unit No. 7, headed by María Silvina Bussano, had revealed: “Electrocution, acute heart failure and atrioventricular fibrillation,” according to the details of the preliminary autopsy report.

After the death of the 45-year-old man, experts checked the area where the body appeared in search of cables or other dangerous elements and thus avoid another accident.

Lanús volunteer firefighters removed the man’s body (Facebook/Alfonso Pasos)

The storm also left two teenagers, ages 12 and 14, hospitalized. The first received the electric shock when touching the refrigerator in his house, which had a wet floor due to a leak in La Plata. After performing cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) maneuvers, it was decided to transfer him to the “Sor María Ludovica” Children’s Hospital. “We are waiting for his awakening to see how he evolves,” sources from the Buenos Aires Health portfolio confided to this medium.

The accident occurred in a house on 223 bis street, in the La Plata neighborhood of El Peligro. Officers from the Seventh Police Station went to the area after a call to 911 and it was the minor’s father who told them that his son had received a shock and that he was unconscious and with vital signs. Minutes later, an ambulance from the Emergency Medical Care System (SAME) arrived, which took the teenager to the hospital.

Regarding the 14-year-old teenager, who suffered an electric shock after touching a light pole, the same sources said that “he is evolving.” The incident occurred on Tuesday afternoon, at the intersection of Haiti and Membrillar streets, just six blocks from where the body previously appeared floating in Valentín Alsina.

According to reports, the minor had contact with a light pole and suffered an electric shock. The sequence was recorded by a security camera that captured the teenager while he was walking through the flooded street and, at the moment he tried to return to the sidewalk, he ended up collapsed on the street while trying to hold on to the structure.

Temporary in AMBA: a 14-year-old minor was electrocuted when touching a light pole (Source: X)

After a neighbor performed CPR maneuvers on him, the minor was transferred to the Evita Hospital in Lanús, where until Wednesday afternoon he remained hospitalized in Intermediate Therapy.

The rain does not stop in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA). Since Tuesday, an orange alert has been in force for storms that have caused transportation complications and have affected different Buenos Aires neighborhoods, leaving hundreds of streets flooded and thousands of users without electricity.

This Thursday, the National Meteorological Service (SMN) indicated that the storms, which already exceeded 200 millimeters accumulated in some Buenos Aires neighborhoods, will continue for the rest of the day.

The national body predicts that it will only stop raining on Friday, as the weather is expected to be partly cloudy in the morning and mostly cloudy in the afternoon, with a 10% chance of rain.

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