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La Asunción .- The Paraguayan Minister of Agriculture and Deputy Minister of Livestock, as well as two other people, were killed when the plane that transported them s & # 39; Wednesday was crushed Wednesday, the remains were found Thursday, announced the rescuers.
In the plane, which crashed about eight kilometers from the airport of Ayolas, on the border with Argentina, traveled the minister 's. 39, Agriculture and livestock, Luis Gneiting; Deputy Minister of Livestock Vicente Ramírez; The official Luis Charotti and the pilot Gerardo Lopez have reviewed the AFP
"There are no survivors," said Roque Gonzalez, a member of the Special Unit for Research and Development. Rescue Service (SAR).
"The plane fell on a stellar with deep waters of at least three meters in the vicinity," he added.
COMPLETELY DISINTEGRATED
"The plane is totally disintegrated, immersed in a mirror of water," said Minister of the National Emergency Secretariat (SEN), Joaquín Roa , at a press conference.
The rescue of the bodies "will be very difficult because the plane fell into an inhospitable place, a stellar with a lot of water in the vicinity", explained the Deputy Commander of the Police, Commissioner Gustavo Báez.
Rubén Aguilar, airport administrator, announced that the rescue would be complicated and that it would take several days.
"We work between water and mud," he told reporters.
The search for the plane crash lasted 14 hours since the complaint of his disappearance shortly after the local 18H22 (22H22 GMT) on Wednesday, said lifeguard González.
He revealed that the cabin of the aircraft is partially submerged to about one meter from the surface
"DESPERFECTO"
The plane "could have had a malfunction in the One of its engines, "said Pilote Lino Paniagua, badigned to the Ministry of Agriculture.
According to the rescuers, when the plane left for Asunción, it had already darkened, the sky was covered with drizzle and low temperature.
The airport security camera recorded the first three minutes of flight until the boat made an unusual ride; Then, you see a lightning bolt and a power failure until it disappears from the radar.
The National Emergency Minister established Ayolas Airport as the operational center for the rescue of the bodies and emphasized the support of the Argentine government of Misiones for this task.
Ayolas is a neighbor of Ituizangó (Argentina). Between the two sites, on the Paraná River, the hydroelectric dam of Yacyretá, shared between the two countries, is erected.
MAN OF CONFIDENCE
Confidant President Horacio Cartes, the late Minister of Agriculture was a pre-candidate for the Vice President of Paraguay in the presidential primaries of the Colorado party in power in December 2017.
Gneiting was the pair of the presidential Santiago Peña.
In the elections they were beaten by the formula composed by Mario Abdo Benítez and Hugo Velázquez, winner in the presidential elections of 22 of April.
Abdo Benítez will badume the presidency on August 15th.
Before embarking on the presidential campaign, Gneiting was governor of the Itapúá department, neighboring the Argentine province of Misiones.
Last May, he was appointed minister.
Before the accident, he had visited his convalescent mother, whose death coincidentally occurred in the early hours of Thursday.
The government declared an official duel for three days and the chambers of senators and deputies held their regular session. date after honoring the victims.
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