A Paraguayan boat with three crew members on board that was sailing on the Paraná River in the jurisdiction of the neighboring country, was hit by a barge and two of its crew members were transferred to hospitals in Paso de la Patria and the provincial capital, while the third remains missing. , reported sources from the Naval Prefecture.
The incident occurred this Saturday morning off the island of Cerrito, a shipping channel with a lot of Argentine and Paraguayan boats, separated only by an imaginary line.
a convoy of commercial barges encountered a large number of sports boats that were carrying out fishing activities, which caused many of them to flee, but one of the tugboats hit a fishing boat with three crew members.
As a result of the impact, the fishermen’s boat was shipwrecked and two of its seriously injured crew members could be rescued, but a third is still being sought by teams from the Argentine and Paraguayan Naval Prefectures.
All this happened in front of Argentine boats that participated in a sports competition, who recorded what happened and uploaded it to social networks.
Military personnel from the neighboring country boarded the remains of the sunken boat and helped its surviving occupants.
The wounded, due to the proximity, were transferred to Argentina and received at the “Dr. Cicconetti” Hospital in Paso de la Patria, while one of them was later transferred by ambulance to the city of Corrientes, to the Teaching Hospital.
The occupants of the boat who were transferred to the Argentine side and are hospitalized were identified as Manuel Bogado and Carlos Wessley, while Rubén Hut is being searched, reported the North newspaper of Corrientes.
Almost 15 days ago, another barge sank a boat with tourists from the Corrientes town of Paso de la Patria, in front of the island of Cerrito.
