In the early morning of this January 1, while many celebrated the arrival of 2023, an American couple who was in Palomino, La Guajira, decided to take a bath on the beach at 2:30 am
The man and the woman who were spending their vacations in Colombia, missed the preventive measures and unfortunately died from the immersion. This morning, the authorities confirmed that they found the body of the tourist. On the other hand, the man is still missing.
Until now, On the subject, only the magistrate of Palomino, Nilka Pereira Guerra, has spoken, who maintained that following the appearance of the lifeless body of the womanthey continue to carry out search work to locate their partner.
The authorities assure that they still do not know the identity of the victims and are sweeping the hotels in the area, it is only known that they were between 30 and 35 years old.
other accidents
This has not been the only accident that leaves a balance of death by immersion, because on December 30 a patrolman of the National Police He was enjoying his vacations at the end of the year seasonHe jumped into the sea and drowned.
Apparently, he would have fallen into a kind of cliff where he might not get out alive. The uniformed man from Sincelejo was identified as Iván José Hernández Porras, and was hanging out with his family in Palomino.
In similar circumstances, but in the municipality of Guatapé, Antioquia, tourists who were in the sector on December 31 discovered a body floating in the waters of the reservoir. According to early versions, it would be a man who had been hanging out with a group of friends in the area.
The shocking scene was discovered a few meters from the pier of the boardwalk. Over there, a group of people who were enjoying a walk sighted the body of the 22-year-old, who would respond to the name of Julián Osorno Hincapié.
The situation was immediately reported to the authorities and the Guatapé Fire Department, who were in charge of removing the body from the cold waters of the Guatapé dam and leaving it at the disposal of the Police Sijín for technical inspection and removal. The corpse was transferred to the Legal Medicine morgue.
The first investigations indicate that Julián Osorno, who worked as a merchant, had arrived a few days ago to visit his family from the municipality of Ciénaga, Magdalena. The night before she would have been hanging out with a group of friends in the area.
However, he had not been reported missing. So far the causes of death are unknown, for which the Antioquia authorities are carrying out the respective investigations to clarify what happened to Julián Osorno Hincapié.
Faced with this unfortunate situation, the authorities remind that “whenever you are going to use a boat, ask for a well-fitting vest that is in good condition. Do not jump into the reservoir to swimIt is forbidden to swim in the reservoir, the waters are cold and deep, the temperature and all this contributes to the fact that we have several accidents in this dam”.
Last Sunday, December 25, while hundreds of families were enjoying the beaches of Cartagena, an emergency occurred that shocked those who were there.
It is regarding the death of a man who was found on the Bony beaches, in Bocagrande. According to the official part, the death was the result of immersion in the seahowever, witnesses say that he would have convulsed moments before dying.
Given this, the Secretary of the Interior, Ana María González, reported that the cause of death was by immersion on the city’s beaches. “It should be noted that this person was in a state of alcoholism”, he added.
