07/23/2020 - 12:09
- Clarín.com
- Society
The province of Mendoza was shocked in the last few hours when the tragic death of a former regional grape harvest queen who had fallen from a cliff in Asturias, Spain was known. This is Noelia Salomé Velázquez , who represented the San Martín Alto Salvador district in the 2009 departmental grape harvest.
Noelia's body was found on Sunday by a neighbor in the Pedral de Situ-Ribadesella area. As confirmed by the Civil Guard at that time, the body found was that of a middle-aged woman who had been deceased "for days . "
The information provided also stated that the victim had no signs of violence, and therefore it is estimated that he suffered an accident . The main hypothesis speaks of a possible fall from a cliff.
The woman did not have her documents and only a shoulder bag, but no object that could help identify her at the time. Then it was learned that it was a person of Argentine nationality.
Noelia Salomé Velázquez, who represented the San Martín Alto Salvador district in the 2009 departmental grape harvest.
According to Spanish media reports, the neighbor who located the woman's lifeless body called the Civil Guard at about 10:45 am. A Citizen Security patrol from the Ribadesella Post and the Local Police traveled to the place and at 14:20 they lifted the body with the help of a helicopter, being transferred to the Institute of Legal Medicine of Asturias to perform the autopsy.
Meanwhile, the Civil Guard opened an investigation to try to discover from where and how it could plunge into the sea.
The neighbor who found her, fond of sports shellfish, said she saw her legs and immediately called the emergency services. During the rescue, a couple of local police officers were trapped in the stone quarry due to the rising tide while guarding the body, but were rescued by the SEPA Fire Rescue Group helicopter.
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