Overview
- Police say the woman entered the Campo Grande station shortly after 7 a.m. Tuesday, doused herself with a flammable liquid and ignited it in the guard area.
- On-duty officers extinguished the flames, gave first aid and transferred her first to a local facility and then to Hospital SAMIC de Oberá.
- Doctors report burns to about 35% of her body with significant facial and airway involvement, surgical cleaning of the wounds, and ongoing mechanical ventilation.
- Medical teams planned to reduce sedation to evaluate her respiratory response, while the hospital continues to describe her condition as critical.
- Authorities seized a lighter, a bottle with alcohol residues and a backpack, turned over the security-camera footage to judicial investigators, and have not established a motive; one outlet identified her as Laura Ester Delmas and reported a possible link to her son’s recent detention, which remains unconfirmed.