"We are a broken family" | Chronic

"It was Friday.At 4 pm in Argentina, my brother-in-law called me to announce the news.We are a broken family, he wants above all to know what's going on. has pbaded and can bring my niece's body to our country."he said Mauricio Flores, 17-year-old San Juan's uncle, who was shocked by an electric shock while climbing the ladder to get out of the sea, in one of Bayahibe's most popular tourist resorts, about fifty kilometers from Punta Cana in the Dominican Republic.

Melina CaputoAccording to his family, he had traveled to be part of his grandmother's plan to take five of his grandchildren on vacation. "Melina climbed the metal ladder she had to leave the sea to reach a jetty on the hotel grounds where they had stopped, namely Bayahibe's Be Live Collection Canoa. There is a jetty for not having to go out along the coast, full of corals with which one can hurt oneself. He was in the fourth stage when he suffered the shock that electrocuted him. On the pier, there is a cabling to power the lanterns that light up at night and a full gourmet stand with refrigerators and TVs that also receive electricity. We badume that all this wiring was faulty and resulted in the download"Flores denounced.

"They said that the hotel staff took Melina to a room for resuscitation, but defibrillators took between half an hour and forty minutes to arrive."

From the customer service area of ​​the hotel neither confirmed nor denied that the incident occurred at his facilities. "Grandma traveled with three of my nephews and two of their cousins. My two nephews and grandmother came back on schedule at dawn on Sunday. There were Melina's cousins, who were of legal age, and as soon as the news was known, my brother-in-law traveled with his brother to wait for the results of the autopsy and be able to bring my niece's body as soon as possible."Flores explained.

according to Horacio Lazzari Mathieu, chief of the consular section of the Embbady of the Argentine Republic in the Dominican Republic, who expects the results of the autopsy to be released Tuesday, said: "The report will determine if more expertise is needed to determine what happened or if the family can already repatriate the body, which they want to do as quickly as possible. "

The grand mother of the young woman "is with an image of hypertension produced from what happened", They insured family. "My sister is not in a position to speak, my nephews, Melina's brothers, are broken, and they think that thousands of tourists have climbed this metal ladder and will continue to climb. said the hotel staff Melina in a room to do resuscitation maneuvers, but it took the defibrillators between half an hour and forty minutes to arrive, " denounced Flores.