Santiago -A man died asphyxiated after being buried by a landslide when he was digging a hole to build a septic in the municipal district of Maimón in Puerto Plata.
The deceased was identified as Inocencio Rodríguez Silverio (Ino), 34 years old, who was trapped 15 feet deep behind the house where he lived in the Los Boboses de Maimón sector.
The R7 rescue unit of the meritorious Puerto Plata Fire Department appeared at the scene, as well as units and volunteers from the Civil Defense and the Ámbar Rescue agency, who began the extraction of the citizen under the established security parameters.
Rodríguez Silverio was taken out lifeless due to suffocation problems.
