Death of a young woman in Punta Cana: the hotel denies having been electrocuted

After the family of teenage girl San Juan Melina Caputo (17 years old) denounced the death of the electrocuted young woman after trampling a wire in a hotel in Punta Cana, the Be Live channel denied it and asked "not to draw any conclusions as to the result of the autopsy". .

According to Infobae, in a statement, the group Globalia – owners of the resort located in the Caribbean – said that "there was no exposed wiring element or no risk to our customers, and the authorities could verify it.

And they added: "The cousin of Melina Caputo is mounted right behind her and without consequences by the same stairs, these are used daily by dozens, even hundreds of people.The first result speaks only of a cardiorespiratory arrest and we consider that there is waiting for the result of the autopsy to determine what has actually happened ".

More on this topic

Elena Peletier, Secretary of Institutional Relations of San Juan, confirmed the newspaper San Juan time that of the governorship manages with the family the transfer of the body in the country "for which there is no date yet".

The official believes that the body of the young woman was repatriated during this week, the father of the girl being in the Dominican Republic.

The young woman died Friday, the day before the end of the family vacation. Melina had traveled to this Dominican town with her two grandmothers, two brothers and several cousins.

According to several media in San Juan, this last day, Caputo, his brothers and cousins ​​would have decided to go see a beach in the area. Back at the hotel, they all borrowed some kind of bridge and did not notice that there was a bare wire on the ground connected to the electric current. Caputo walked barefoot on this cable and suffered a lightning discharge.

Then the doctors who went to the hospital performed resuscitation tasks, but their work was in vain. Meanwhile, the brothers and cousins ​​of the teenager have watched the situation with fear.