2023-08-27 02:57:08
The impressive snowfall that is falling in vast areas of the province of Mendoza, the biggest in decades They have already left the sad balance of two dead. This Saturday, the victim was a man in a field near the Mendoza city of Malargüe, who was crushed to death by the weight of the snow on a shed that he had set up to protect his animals from the storm, and which fell on top of the snow. yield to the pressure of the large amount of snow that had accumulated in the last few hours.
The man was identified as Pedro Molina, 48 years oldand worked in an establishment in the area known as Castillos de Pinchera, some 300 kilometers from the provincial capital.
His relatives told that Molina had built a “ramada” so that his animals would have a place to shelter from the terrible snow storm, but that precarious structure received an amount of snow that it might not bear, with such bad luck for the stallholder who crushed him when he worked in that place.
When the doctors from the Coordinated Emergency Service (SEC) arrived, they checked the man and verified his death, while it was indicated that the respective case is being processed by the Jurisdiction Prosecutor’s Office, from Malargüe Police Station 24.
Another victim in the “Road to the Dinosaurs”
Molina was the second victim of the snowfall in Mendozasince on Friday the death of another man had been reported, who died on the so-called “Road to the Footprints of Dinosaurs”, an area also close to Malargüe in the south of the province. In that case the identity of the subject was not indicated.
The troops of the Gendarmerie in Mendoza are fulfilling a continuous task of helping the requests for assistance that are multiplying, for which the authorities have asked the population to attend to the preventions and only leave the homes in the most affected areas in cases of extreme needs.
For his part, The National Meteorological Service (SMN) issued a new snowfall alert this Saturday, whose intensity is unprecedented in southern Mendoza.
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