Salta: they find another body and there are already two deaths from the nautical accident in the Bermejo river

The The body of a woman was found this Thursday, with which there are already two dead due to the boating accident in the Bermejo river, after a damaged barge, in which 26 people were traveling, was swept away by the strong current when it tried to cross the border between Salta and Bolivia, sources say policewomen.

As, rescuers continued their search for four missing persons, Among them, Leonel Eugenio Cruz Segovia, an Argentinian one-month-old baby who, according to his father, was washed away by the river; a Bolivian woman identified as Nancy Cárdenas and a three month old boy.

The woman’s body was found on an islet in the river and the forensic service was trying to establish his identity.

The accident happened when the precarious barge, which had left Wednesday morning from the town of Salta d’Aguas Blancas in Bermejo, Bolivia, across the bed of the Bermejo river, with 26 people on board, He was trying to cross the border illegally.

While crossing a palisade, the rubber boat broke, causing many sailors to jump into the river for their lives. Although they tried to swim to shore, several of them disappeared.

Police sources indicated that, as part of the search and rescue tasks deployed by members of the operational command, today they saved a woman’s body from the riverbed.

In addition, they detailed that a provisional list of 26 occupants of the damaged vessel. Among the survivors were Argentines Enrique Cruz Fajardo and Erica Gabriela Donayre, both 30 years old; Moisés Abraham Castro Chavarría, 34 years old; Isidora Fajardo, 46 ​​years old and who is said to be in Bolivian territory; as Tania Segovia, 26; Natalia Fajardo, 24; and Cruz Medina, 14, joined by Bolivians Ismael Justiniano Coro Mendoza, 38; Claudio Colque, 27 years old; Franco Martínez, 37 years old; Veymar Cari, 36 years old; and Hernán Vallejo, 28; the whole group of paddlers.

Likewise, the Argentinian Claudio Rolando Soria, 36 years old; and Bolivian Clara Ocampo, 26, while a woman named Celia has been identified, believed to be in Bolivian territory, as well as an unidentified man known as “Mecha”.

Meanwhile, a woman with a four-year-old boy is said to be in Bolivia, with a man and a girl of around seven, while two people from the province of Santa Fe are said to have already been to that province.

Ángel Damián Quispe Santos, 26, of Bolivian nationality, was the man rescued lifeless yesterday. The sources revealed that despite the adverse weather conditions in the region, Police support the search for the missing on the banks of the Bermejo River.

The river bed was particularly swollen due to the heavy rains recorded in the area these days, which caused a strong current to hamper the work of the rowers who were in charge of the boat.

The federal prosecutor of Oran, José Luis Bruno, in a joint investigation with the Tax Unit of the serious attacks of the city of Oran – of the provincial justice -, implements various measures to establish what happened.

The research actions had started Wednesday with a hundred people involved, between the police, firefighters, gendarmes and volunteer rescuers, under the supervision of Regional Unit 2 of Oran of the Police of Salta, but today they were in the hands of around 35 specialists.

The spokespersons indicated that, on the basis of the provisions of Law 25.020 – which allows international collaboration with other security forces – joint tasks have been agreed with the Bolivian authorities, in particular aerial and ground sweeping.

A video that has gone viral on social media shows how passengers traveled without lifejackets or protection, in a boat built with rubber bands and wood.

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