A 14-year-old boy received an electric shock in Valentín Alsina and was hospitalized in serious condition after touching a light pole in the midst of the floods that affected that and other areas of the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area (AMBA), as a result of the intense rains fell during this Tuesday.
The episode happened in the vicinity of Haiti and Membrillar streets, in that town in the Lanús district.
In the images that emerged through social networks, the minor is initially seen descending into the street, which was full of water.
Then, when he wants to get back on the sidewalk, he touches a light pole and receives the shock.
A neighbor of the place, named Romina, told
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that the minor was assisted by a man who performed CPR on him and that then a woman went to his home to ask for help.
“We did CPR with a neighbor for 15 minutes, until the ambulance, the Fire Department and the Police arrived.
The person in the ambulance also performed CPR on him and then they loaded him into the ambulance and took him away,” he said.
In addition, he specified that the minor “reacted again but completely lost consciousness.”
“It cost us a lot.
He would come back, he would leave, until the ambulance arrived and they also did CPR on him, and they took him away unconscious,” he insisted.
In the same town, and also in the middle of the storm, the body of a man was found dead this Tuesday.
At the time of finding him, the body had been floating for at least an hour in the water that flooded La Habana and Coronel Luna streets, five blocks from the Alsina bridge and about 600 meters from where the boy was electrocuted.
A woman named Lelianny filmed it from the window of her house and uploaded the images to networks so that some authority could send help.
Neighbors recorded it on video and the images quickly went viral.
They also reported that the authorities took a while to verify the death.
"Some neighbors took his pulse, they all came out, what's more, they wanted to protect him because there was a line of buses that wanted to pass and they didn't know there was a body and they could step on it," the woman who recorded the lifeless body explained to TN.
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The neighbors were the ones who discovered it and called the police and firefighters.
The death of this man, who was dressed in a suit and whose identity was not revealed, was confirmed to Radio con Vos by Fabián García, head of Civil Defense of the Province of Buenos Aires.
"There is a dead man lying on the street of my house in Valentín Alsina, no one comes to see. It is urgent, he looks like a person who was going to work on a normal day," a neighbor posted around 8:30 in the morning and shared a video in which the corpse was seen, dressed in black, floating in the middle of the street.
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