They found the bodies of the two victims of the accident caused by a man driving a boat drunk on the Luján River – Up Jobs News

A man who was driving drunk a boat with an outboard motor yesterday collided with a boat about him Lujan River, at the height of the San Fernando channel. Four people were traveling in the rammed boat. After the incident, two of them were hospitalized and the bodies of the rest of the occupants were found this morning.

Sources from the Naval Prefecture, which deployed a search operation with tactical divers both last night and today, confirmed to THE NATION that, around 11 o’clock, tactical divers found one body, and that after 12:20, the second was found, both in an area near the place where the crash occurred.

At 2:00 p.m., the main prefect Cristian Sarasúa, head of the Prefecture of San Fernando, confirmed that the two bodies found are those of Marcelo Castro and Sergio Duarte. “The prosecutor asked to keep the summary secret but we can confirm that two deceased people were found dead, Marcelo Daniel Castro and Sergio Duarte. It is all I can say. At the moment the nautical traffic remains interrupted in the Luján River and we are trying to find the wooden hull of the boat as evidence for the investigation. The prosecutor is taking inquiries from witnesses,” he said at a news conference.

It was around 7:40 p.m. yesterday when the sports boat, which was passing at high speed in front of the Canal San Fernando de Prefectura Surveillance post, collided with the boat and broke it in halfas reported by the portal What’s up. Two people were traveling in the motor vehicle, Diego Bermuda and Martín González, who after the breathalyzer tests carried out by Prefecture personnel yielded a positive result: the driver had 1.92 grams of alcohol in his blood and his companion, 1.90, LA NACION was able to find out from sources of the investigation.

The victims who could be assisted by the Naval Prefecture and taken to the Petrona de Cordero provincial hospital, located in San Fernando, were identified as Claudia Veronica Castro35 years old, and Sixto Quiroga29. According to the part provided yesterday, they have injuries but are out of danger and today they have already been discharged.

For their part, those who had disappeared were Martin Daniel Castro, 33, the woman’s brother; Y Sergio Daniel Duarte, 30, Claudia’s partner. The three men work as stakeholders on Nicolini Island and last night they were on their way to their homes in El Tigre.

Naval Prefecture agents carried out a special operation during the night and part of the morning to find them, which had to be suspended due to poor visibility in the area. The work was resumed this morning, and it was possible to find two bodies that have yet to be identified.

The Rincón de Milberg and Tigre Centro Tax Unit, led by José Amallo, is involved in the investigation of the incident.

Juan Castro is 59 years old and is the uncle of Marcelo, one of the deceased. Around 1:00 p.m., she was in the operation together with relatives of the disappeared, waiting for news. “I am broke. Marcelo is a laburador kid, a fighter, he searched for it as he could. He has three children, ages 8, 9, and a baby,” he said.

Castro added that Claudia flashed lights at the boat that hit them, but that they were so drunk that they did not see them. “It came through the middle and passed them over. She bumped into them from behind and he kind of got on it,” she said.

In addition, he clarified that, contrary to what was said, it was not a rowing boat, as it turned out, but that it had an internal motor and measured eight meters by two and a half.

The crash shocked the Delta community. Giovanna, 55, who has lived on the islands for 36 years, and preferred to preserve her last name, said: “Alcohol runs a lot on the river and many people go out with the boats to drive drunk. Most tourists. The issue is not when they get off the Delta to eat at restaurants, but rather after. They come to restaurants and parties and then return to the mainland all drunk.”

And he added: “Weekends are crazy with private parties on the catamarans. There is a party from Thursday to Sunday in the Boraso, San Antonio and Dorado streams. Later, in the main canals they always circulate at excessive speeds: the biggest problem is in El Capitan, El Sarmiento and El Luján. There is no posted speed limit. Each boat goes at the speed allowed by the engine. There is no control, the Prefecture cannot cope with the personnel it has, the Delta has expanded a lot”.

“Eight months ago in Sarmiento, a boatman killed an oarsman who was in a canoe,” he recalled. He wasn’t drunk but he was speeding. Jet skis and jet skis circulate at night even though they are prohibited because they are boats that do not have lights. They do it the same and they don’t control them.”