The welding of the cabin of a tanker truck in Villa Elisa had barely begun and an explosion already occurred, which left one dead from calcination and two seriously injured. The fatal victim had gone to visit with his wife, but she decided to help.
Elvio Estigarribia Martínez is the man who burned to death on Saturday afternoon in Villa Elisa, after the explosion of a tanker truck.
“Mr. Elvio arrived in the afternoon with his wife, They were visiting and at night they were going to share a dinner, at one point they began to weld the part of the cabin, Elvio placed a welder and climbed up the part of the cabin, as soon as it started and the explosion already occurred “recounted the prosecutor Angélica Acosta, in an interview with 1080 AM.
He explained that it was very difficult to remove the body, because it was trapped between the cabin and the tanker truck.
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As for the survivors, both are admitted to the Burn Center. One of them in intensive care, with burns on 35% of the total body surface. The second, in intermediate care, with 30% burns.
“At the moment they are stable, but in critical condition because as these are burns that affect the face, the airways must be evaluated. This morning they are going into the operating room for a procedure and we are going to do an evaluation,” Dr. Saúl Zaputovich, director of Cenquer, informed Gen.
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We update the state of health of the injured after the fire of a tanker truck in Villa Elisa.
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Regarding the tanker truck, officials from the INTN (National Institute of Technology and Standardization) will go to Police Station 13, in order to measure the amount of fuel the truck contained.
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