The tragedy hovered in the Cubaro valley when the unit in which 17 people were traveling -including two families with children- would have lost their way and fell 200 meters below. 16 people who were in the rural truck died. The event was recorded after noon in the San Cristóbal de Toncoa sector on the Mazamari road to Puerto Ocopa in the province of Satipo. The truck suffered a strong impact when it fell into the middle of the river from a height of 200 meters.
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“Apparently it was a mistake due to speed, the truck that was full of passengers in the hopper invaded the opposite lane and from there it went into the abyss. Agriculture is the main activity in the area. Among the deceased is the president of the Agrarian Federation of Mazamari, Hamilton Porras, “the person in charge of Institutional Image of the Municipality of Mazamari, Lourdes Bravo Pastrana, told Correo.
That tragic Saturday, members of the Fire Company, agents of the National Police, Sichis de Mazamari and watchmen of the Mazamari municipality worked on the recovery of the bodies until late at night, they had to use an electrical equipment. This activity continued yesterday, Sunday morning, and more than 20 hours after the accident, they managed to find the last two victims.
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The deceased were identified as: Hamilton Porras Quispe (37) (driver), Sonia Lucy Selarayan Ojosi (39), minors Salvador Jesús PS (11) (died on the way to the hospital), Silver Basco PS (02), Jesús Porras Cristóbal, María Natalia Villavicencio Aysanoa (46), Pedro Félix Cullanco Quispe (79), Eleuterio Oré Muñoz (68), Victoria Vega Shihuincho (64), Bertina Romaní Pérez (47), Giraldina Rosa Romaní de García (56), Rina Rojas de Vega (64), Deysi Huamán Cotera de Hinojosa (28), Elmer Rios Hilario (28), Yemerson RH (16), Lian Gael RH (8 months). The only survivor, Fabian Gaspar JA (14) was admitted to the Pangoa hospital as an emergency.
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The bodies remained at the Mazamari police station, where members of the Chanchamayo Legal Medicine unit arrived under the charge of the medical examiner, Rolando Galvez Camargo, who pointed out that the samples to determine the level of toxicity in the driver’s blood were sent to the unit. correspondent. “Most of the victims died from severe and multiple fractures, exposure of the brain mass, among others,” he said.
Yesterday morning was another sad scene in the police station where the bereaved arrived with boxes in which to take their loved ones out to say goodbye. Several bodies were taken to the city’s coliseum where they were veiled. The Ríos Huamán family was transferred to the district of Sapallanga in Huancayo.
