Six people were injured and 30 had to be evacuated last night after a explosion followed by fire in a tenement in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Mouth.
The disaster occurred in a room on the first floor of a property located on Olavarría Street at 1600, which was closed to traffic for the work of the City Firefighters and SAME.
According to testimonies, The incident occurred after an attack by a man, who ended up cut with a saw, and that he was transferred by SAME to the Argerich hospital, as a detainee. That building, where several families lived, consists of a basement, ground floor and two floors.
A sharp saw was seized from the prisoner, with which he would have injured himself, and it was placed at the disposal of the National Criminal and Correctional Court 14, under the charge of Dr. Edmundo Rabbione, Secretariat 143 of Dr. Alberto Gegunded.
As for the wounded, two women with 50% of their bodies burned They were transferred by SAME to the Quemado hospital and their condition was reserved.
Two other women, one of them pregnant, were affected by smoke inhalation; and two men, one of them the accused, 62 years old, with a cut on the neck, were transferred to the Penna and Argerich hospitals.
SAME worked with 14 mobile units, Police and City Firefighters. Although the fire was controlled and the possibility of the building collapsing was ruled out, the security operation still continues.
Four years ago, another fire that occurred in another tenement in La Boca also broke out due to an argument. On that occasion, a 19-year-old young man lit a mattress in his room after arguing with his mother and sent her photos of the fire on WhatsApp.
“Go on with your life, don’t worry about mine.”said the message with a couple of emojis, an audio and a photo of a mattress catching fire at exactly 12:14 a.m. this Thursday, January 9. To which the mother responded: “What are you doing stupid, you don’t solve anything like that, eu…”.
As a result of this dilemma between mother and son, about twenty families were left in the streets due to the fire What happened after that communication.
The incident was reported minutes later, at 12:20 a.m., and happened on 46 Irala Street, half a block from Lezama Park, in the south of the Federal Capital. Four rooms were directly hit by the fire, but the entire tenement was affected by smoke and the families who lived there had to be evacuated.
Brian Javier Saucedo, who according to his mother is addicted to drugs and alcohol, used to have arguments with his mother, but this time he went further. According to investigation sources, he lived on the upper floor of the complex, and after the fight he went up to his room, set the mattress on fire, sent two WhatsApp messages and left the place.
The witnesses indicated that, upon realizing what he had caused, and in his desperation, he would have thrown the mattress out the window. This caused the fire to reach neighboring homes. His mother, upon noticing the fire, gave the alert.
The young man was detained by the police near the scene of the incident and by order of the Buenos Aires prosecutor Carlos Rolero Santurian he was referred to the mayor’s office for medical studies to be performed and to determine his background.
The aggressor was charged with malicious damage that endangered the physical integrity of third parties. a crime provided for in article 186, paragraph 4, which has a penalty of three to fifteen years in prison.
