Overview
- Local workers say Jorge Eliezer Hardy entered Laguna El Víbora to reorient an animal during a herd move and disappeared beneath the surface, with companions and neighbours recovering his body minutes later.
- Police and emergency teams responded and the Ministerio Público de la Acusación opened procedures with fiscal Leandro Arraga taking part in on-site diligences.
- The medical police determined the cause of death was asphyxia by immersion with no signs of violence, officials waived an autopsy and the Fiscalía released the body to the family after completing protocols.
- The incident took place in campo Mian, about 15 kilometres east of Villa Ocampo and roughly 2 kilometres south of the new El Pindó bridge in a bañados area affected by rising Paraná levels.
- Coverage frames the fatality as part of the risks created by crecida-driven livestock relocations, and one outlet called it the first El Niño-related death in the province but that specific claim has not been independently corroborated.