Four people, including two children and a pregnant woman, were injured. after part of a hill collapsed in Chos Malal, north of Neuquén. It was on Provincial Route 43, at the foot of Cerro de la Virgen.
all the victims they suffered blows when they were trapped under the rocks, They were assisted and transferred to the hospital. “They are currently being evaluated by local health personnel, being one of the pediatric patients with the possibility of being transferred due to a surgical fracture“Reported the Neuquén Ministry of Health.
Pablo Sandoval, head of the Chos Malal Volunteer Fire Rescue Corps, explained to local media that “an important part of the hill was detached”, and they had to assist three people, among whom was “a minor who had a trapped leg and some cuts.
While, traffic remains disrupted and an ambulance stationed at the site of the collapse, since New landslides are not ruled out.
Finally, Sandoval indicated: “We are working with the police to free the old part (of Route 43), at least one hand, because we are cut off from the north of Neuquén”.
“There was a lady screaming after the stones fell. There was a 3-year-old girl trapped that we were able to get her outthere was also another girl trapped and the Fire Department had to intervene with the hydraulic clamp to rescue her,” said a neighbor who witnessed the collapse in statements to local TV.
