Overview

• The elevator dropped to the ground level around 1:30–1:35 a.m. in a building on Arévalo 2700 in Buenos Aires’ Palermo neighborhood.
• Later reports list nine young occupants, with initial accounts varying on headcount and the originating floor, which some outlets described as the seventh and others as the ninth.
• Bomberos de la Ciudad, SAME and Policía de la Ciudad conducted the rescue, deploying a triage unit and about 11 ambulances before concluding operations by roughly 2:45 a.m.
• All victims sustained polytrauma, with reported fractures of a femur and a fibula, and were transferred to Hospitals Fernández (five), Pirovano (two) and Rivadavia (two).
• Comisaría Vecinal 14 B and the Unidad de Flagrancia Norte, led by prosecutor Federico Brondini, are reviewing maintenance records and other evidence to assess potential mechanical failure or overloading; no deaths were reported.