The Maldonado Police and Firefighters finally found and extracted a body in the waters of Nueva Carrara in the waters of the Nueva Carrara quarryreported sources from the Maldonado Police Headquarters to The Observer.
Staff continue to work to identify if it is of the 22-year-old who disappeared this Saturday.
As reported by FM Gente, the young man had attended with three other friends. Two of them got separated from the group and two others—one of the missing—tried to swim across.
The destination, located seven kilometers from Pan de Azúcar, experienced an unprecedented tourist explosion in the summer of 2021. Initially the crystal clear water drew attention and visits to the place increased as the word spread on social networks, but the authorities quickly warned that it was due to the large amount of chemicals that the water contained. Mainly, by calcium carbonate.
The quarries are on private property, which thousands of tourists constantly violated and which aroused the anger of the company that owns the place, Compañía Nacional de Cementos (CNC), which has its industrial plant and deposits in Nueva Carrara.
This Sunday, the police chief of this department, Julio Pioli, had informed The Observer that a body had been found 19 meters deep in the quarry. However, from the Headquarters itself they backed down and rectified that they had “visualized a silhouette”, which “the search continued” and they assured that they would be informed “as soon as possible when it appears.”
