Municipal workers carrying out patching works in San Martín accidentally punctured a gas master pipe, which produced a strong explosion and a fire that affected a PH with several apartments. There are two people injured and the Police evacuated the entire block.
The impressive accident occurred this Thursday at noon, on the corner of Reconquista and Professor Aguer, near the Chilavert station, in Villa Ballester. Volunteer Firefighters and Civil Defense work at the scene. A crew from the gas supply company also intervened, trying to repair the leak.
According to what was learned, at the beginning of the week, the Municipality of San Martín had begun repaving the streets of the block. It would have been an excavator that broke the pipe that crossed under the asphalt.
After the explosion, the neighbors self-evacuated. Two people were injured and taken to the area hospital. In turn, some pets ran out of fear, and their owners went out to look for them in the neighborhood.
“My whole house burst. It was truly crazy, a horror movie. My mother was saved because she was not there, but her room exploded. If she was there, she would die,” said a neighbor. “My house was destroyed, everything burned. “I lost my home and my cat,” the man added.
“It’s a danger, because it seems like they can’t stop the gas leak,” said another neighbor who was affected by the explosion. “We have been waiting for three hours for them to fix it. “Everything is going to blow up,” she added.
In this context, Mario Oyarzo, head of the Villa Ballester fire station, explained: “We are waiting for the gas people to cut off the service to extinguish the fire. “They are looking for the valve to make the cut in the best way.”
At the closing of this note, the Municipality of San Martín did not issue any official statement in this regard. It is worth remembering that the mayor of that municipality is being prosecuted for an alleged act of corruption. In the last hours, Justice requested the arrest of the communal chief, Fernando Moreira. However, this morning he led an event in the town of Villa Concepción.
