Guillermo Villarreal
07/31/2020 - 17:33
- Clarín.com
- Society
A 48-year-old woman died this Friday afternoon after a part of the base of a balcony fell from a fifth floor of a building located in front of Plaza Colón, on the coast of Mar del Plata. The concrete blocks hit the woman when she was walking with a friend.
The event occurred shortly before 4 in the afternoon on Calle Arenales, between Boulevard Marítimo and Avenida Colón . The front of the building overlooks the sea and it was from one of the balconies overlooking the street that the masonry detachment occurred.
According to witnesses, as a result of the impact the woman began to lose a lot of blood. An ambulance arrived immediately, but the doctors, despite the maneuvers they practiced, were unable to save his life.
A witness told local media that he saw "a brick wall" fall on the woman's head, and that she could no longer get up. The young man was the one who ran to the Casino police station, a few meters across the Costanera avenue, to notify the Police.
It is not the first time that an episode of this nature occurs in the city. On December 30, 2019 , the entire line of balconies in front of an old Punta Mogotes building fell off and fell on a young mom and her 3-year-old daughter.
Agustina Ferro, 36, and her daughter India, 3, were crushed to death by the concrete blocks. Her husband and her other 9-year-old daughter watched the scene from a coffee table on the corner of Puán and Acevedo.
Mar del Plata. Correspondent
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