Explosion, fire and death at Villa Devoto: there are five accused

While the results of the expertise on the house which collapsed on Saturday midday due to a burst in the neighborhood of Buenos Aires Dedicated villa, where a 76-year-old man died and a Metrogas operator was injured; The justice of Buenos Aires has decided that the case will be investigated for the crime of guilty damage. Hay five defendants.

Judicial sources said the five accused are the injured Metrogas operator, who is out of danger, and four employees of the Cobra company, which performs work for Edesur. From the gas supplier, they pointed out that at least until Monday afternoon, they had “no knowledge that there had been any accusation” against their worker.

The tax assistant Alexander Fosterof the West Flagrance Unit of the City, ordered the first measures in coordination with the prosecutor Lorraine Saint-Marcin charge of the PCyF 19 prosecutor’s office, where he will continue to deal with the case under investigation as guilty damageimplying that the fire was caused by recklessness, recklessness or negligence.

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This Monday, while the personnel of the Accidents division of the Municipal Police carried out the removal and removal a piece of gas pipe; The San Marco prosecutor was collecting evidence and speaking with the Buenos Aires fire department They continue to work in the area to establish the causes of the explosion. “The Forensics area was also added to get traces,” they reported.

The truth is that, more than 48 hours after the explosion, the results of the first tests are still awaited. “Metrogas and Edesur have also requested all reports of complaints received for gas leaks, power outages and other contingenciesand the protocol of action for this type of case”, detailed the sources consulted by this means.

In addition, the Buenos Aires bailiff ordered the removal of the truck of one of the companies involved and of the four cars affected by the explosion and the fire, to proceed to an expertise; as well as requested the investigation of security cameras in the area and the removal of the clothes of the Metrogas operator who was injured.

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Another of the orders issued by the court was that SAME be ordered to provide them psychological confinement to neighbors during the reception of testimonies. In this context, it was learned that the family living in the house next to the victim I was on holiday.

While awaiting the result of the autopsy on the victim who was in one of the collapsed houses, already on Sunday the evacuated neighbors received the collaboration of the firefighters to remove some of their belongings.

The explosion occurred on Saturday, after 12 p.m., in a house located in Pedro Morán, a few meters from its intersection with Calle Quevedo, in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa Devoto, where an operator of the Metrogas company I was working for a leak.

As Metrogas reports, after phone calls from locals warning of a strong smell of gas in the area; one of the workers arrived, opened the meter cover and the explosion that caused the fire occurred.

After the explosion, city police and firefighters responding to the incident found a 76-year-old man dead in the rubble. In turn, the SAME holder, Alberto Crescentiinformed the news agency telam because the 34-year-old Metrogas operator had been transferred to the Zubizarreta hospital with wounds and burnslucid, out of danger and without risk of life.

Photos: Nicolas Stulberg

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