Naval Prefecture personnel found a lifeless body in the Luján River, within the framework of the operation carried out to find the two men who disappeared this Thursday after starring in a collision between a boat and a boat. The remains found have not yet been identified.
The events occurred around 7:40 p.m. on Thursday. The rowing boat split in half from the impact of the crash and the wreckage sank into the Lujan River. The search for the two missing people was paused during the early morning due to the lack of light and it resumed this morning in a wider search area.
After the impact, the Naval Prefecture intervened in the rescue of the people who were ejected from the boat. Two boaters were rescued from the water with injuries. and transferred to the Petrona V de Cordero Hospital to receive medical care, while two others remain missing.
After a call to 911, police officers approached the place and performed an alcohol test on the driver of the boat and his companion. Both of them tested positive for breathalyzer and they were arrested. The investigation of the facts was left in the hands of the prosecutor Jose Amallo, head of the UFI Tigre-Rincón.
Who are the crew of the boat
The people who were traveling in the boat were identified by the police as Verónica Castro (35), Sixto Quiroga (29), Martín Daniel Castro (33) and Sergio Daniel Duarte (30). The first two were those who were injured and taken to a health center. According to local media, the men worked as stakeholders in a delta house and the woman as a domestic worker.
Relatives of the victims indicated that the small boat was in adequate conditions to navigate, since it was a tour that their loved ones made daily to travel to their places of work.