amount deceased This number increased to five after the flood disaster in a tourist canyon in the Cochabamba region of Bolivia. After the body of one of the two missing women was found this Monday. Cochabamba Police division commander Jorge Ríos confirmed in a statement to the media that the Bolivian Police Special Rescue Brigade, Rescue and Assistance Team (Bersa) managed to find the body this morning “as a result of search and rescue operations.” a woman.
The incident occurred in the Tuta Wallpa canyon, a tourist attraction located in the Tablas Monte community in a subtropical region of Cochabamba. On Saturday a group of tourists and guides entered for boating.
As of Sunday, four deaths, four injuries and two people were reported missing. The State Attorney General’s Office announced today that an “ex officio” investigation has been launched into the incident in which five tourists, three women and two men, lost their lives.
According to the statement made by the Public Ministry, a preliminary investigation is being carried out in the case for “intentional murder against the author or authors”. Cochabamba regional prosecutor Nuria Gonzales stated that a team from the Institute of Forensic Investigations (IDIF) and the prosecutor of the Colomi municipality, where Tuta Wallpa is located, were at the scene. Volunteer firefighters, the Rescue and Recovery group of the Bolivian Air Force (SAR-FAB) and Bersa are also in the area “along with dogs, drones, community members in the area and others” who are continuing the search and rescue. A tourist who is still missing,” Gonzales said.
In the preliminary investigation, it was stated that 10 tourists and 3 guides from a tourism agency were detained. They entered the canyon to do extreme sports, but were stunned by the flood, said responsible prosecutor Fabricio Daza. According to the statement made by the prosecutor’s office, in the autopsies performed by IDIF on the first four people who died, it was determined that these people died due to “mechanical asphyxiation due to immersion in water”, while the body of the fifth victim was transferred to the city of Cochabamba on the same day.
Deputy Minister of Civil Defense Juan Carlos Calvimontes said that in addition to the flood in Tablas Monte, the Pirai River was also flooded in the eastern region of Santa Cruz due to rain. Due to this incident, La Guardia announced that 11 people were trapped in the municipality of Santa Cruz, but all of them were rescued alive. The rains also caused a river to swell in the Caranavi municipality in the Los Yungas subtropical region of La Paz; There are no reports of missing people here yet, but there is damage to houses.