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Peru Riverbank Collapse and Argentine Accidents Spur Rescues and Criminal Inquiries

Officials launch rescues in Peru alongside negligence inquiries in Argentina.

Overview

  • Peru’s COEN reports 12 dead, about 30 missing and 6 injured after a pre‑dawn riverbank collapse in Iparia that crushed two moored boats.
  • Search teams from the Police Salvage Unit and regional emergency agencies continue river and air operations, with survivors treated locally as the lack of passenger lists complicates accounting.
  • In Mar del Plata, construction worker Leandro Ezequiel Vega, 37, died after a fall down an elevator shaft; an autopsy found multiple trauma leading to hypovolemic shock.
  • Prosecutor Germán Vera Tapia notified two architects, ages 33 and 35, in a homicide culposo case over the Mar del Plata fatality, and a separate case in Villa Devoto imputed architect Claudio Sergio Mónaco, 79, after a scaffold piece killed a 20‑year‑old pedestrian.
  • A tourist helicopter crashed onto tennis courts in Palermo, destroying the aircraft; three occupants survived with injuries as emergency crews responded and investigators opened a technical probe.