The coroner’s institute of Ponta Grossa, in the Brazilian state of Paraná, managed to identify four of the five Argentines who died in the early hours of Tuesday when a bus that had left from overturned Florianopolis and had as final destination Foz do Iguazu, in the Triple Frontier.
It’s about four people they reside in the province of Misiones and returned from their holidays on the coast of Santa Catarina. The first to be identified were Carina Martínez (42) and her young son, David Pinchevsky. The woman, who worked in a shop in Puerto Iguazú, traveled with her partner, Jese Adriel Pinchevsky (45) and two other children, aged 11 and 17, were not seriously injured.
Over the course of hours, Brazilian experts managed to obtain data on two other Argentines: Giuliana Tessari (24) and her boyfriend, Fernando Benítez, who were natives of the city of Vandain the north of Misiones.
The Civil Police of Texeira Soares, in charge of investigating the road accident, reported that two Brazilians were also identified, Genivaldo Fernándes de Lima (49), from Cascavel; and Teicir Ahmad Tarbine (31), a trader from Foz do Iguazú.
The tragedy occurred on Tuesday at 1.50 pm at kilometer 232 of the BR 277, near the town of Fernandes Pinheiro, in the Brazilian state of Paraná. The bus driver of the Viação Catarinense company admitted this to the Civil Police fell asleep at the wheel. 54 passengers were traveling in the bus, including Argentine, Paraguayan and German tourists, and 22 sustained injuries.
The delegate of the Civil Police, Wesley Vinicius Goncálves da Silva, said that in his statement the bus driver said he would be rescued in the city of Guarapuava, about 115 kilometers from the scene of the accident. And that he made only one arrest on the street.
The Civil Police have communicated that they are investigating the causes and that they are trying to ascertain if the driver has driven more hours than recommended. After his statement, the driver was released.
“The tests ruled out skid marks or a collision with another vehicle. What we have so far is that there was a loss of control by the driver, which resulted in the overturning,” added the delegate. Mechanical tests still need to be completed to rule out a brake failure, said Goncalves da Silva.
The bus of the Viação Catarinense company left Florianópolis on Monday at 16:20 bound for Foz do Iguazú, 940 kilometers away. Midway through the voyage there was a fatal oversight which resulted in seven deaths, five of them Argentines.
The Legal Medical Institute of Ponta Grossa was waiting for the fingerprints of the Argentine victims to be sent to complete the process and free the bodies.
Paraná State media indicated that the bodies of the Argentines were sent to Curitiba, but hours later they were returned to the Legal Medical Institute of Ponta Grossa, despite the fact that they do not have the necessary infrastructure there to conserve that number of victims for a long time.
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Source: Clarin
