Overview
- The bodies of 24-year-old Adrián Pérez and his three daughters, aged 8, 5 and 4, were found after a multi-day search that began when family members reported them missing on Friday.
- A police medico-legal autopsy, confirmed by the Ministerio Público Fiscal de Salta, determined the four deaths resulted from cardiorespiratory arrest caused by severe heatstroke and acute dehydration.
- Search teams located the father beside his motorcycle and later found the three girls scattered about 500 meters apart on a rural path roughly 20 kilometres from the paraje Bragado, after night searches were suspended because of poor visibility and difficult terrain.
- Fiscal Gonzalo Ariel Vega opened a criminal investigation and ordered reconstruction and forensic measures with Criminalística and the GAP unit to establish the route and exact circumstances of the journey.
- Local press have reported a working hypothesis of a motorcycle rollover with a broken water container and attempts to obtain plant fluids, but those field reconstructions remain unverified and underscore how scarce water and rough roads increase risk for travelers and complicate rescues.