Video: a young woman tried to jump off a bridge onto General Paz Avenue

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With just a few minutes to go until Christmas Day was over, police officers rescued a 20-year-old girl who wanted to jump off a bridge onto General Paz Avenue, apparently with the intention of committing suicide.

According to what they specified Infobae sources of the City Police, the event occurred after 23 on Friday, when two members of Police Station 12A of this force arrived at the intersection with Ricardo Balbín Avenue, on the border between the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Saavedra and the town Buenos Aires from Villa Martelli, alerted to the situation.

Upon arriving at the place and while waiting for the reinforcements, the uniformed men began to verbally contain the young woman, that she was holding onto the bridge railing, her back to the cars speeding by under her.

Soon after, other police officers joined the operation who also began to speak with the woman, who He confessed that he had “intention of throwing himself” at General Paz because “his life has no meaning.”

At that time and as can be seen in the images of the security cameras in the area that recorded the entire event, one of the officers He made a sign to the girl to get her attention and distract her, while her partner, located on the other side, ran towards her and grabbed her upper body to prevent her from falling.

Subsequently, all the other troops that were in the place also rushed towards the young woman and they managed to lift her and carry her to the pedestrian part of the bridge, thus preventing her from taking her own life.

A few minutes later, a SAME ambulance arrived at the scene and, with police instructions, transferred the 20-year-old girl to the Pirovano Hospital, where they treated her to confirm that she did not have any injuries.

At the same time, a case for attempted suicide was opened and by decision of the Prosecutor’s Office on duty it was decided contact the young woman’s family, from whom a statement was taken. Likewise, the intervention of an interdisciplinary team and the review of the security cameras were ordered to try to clarify the fact.

Recently, City Police officers were also able to rescue a man who had climbed on a scaffolding of the National Congress, of which are used for the restoration works of the building, and for several minutes he threatened to throw himself into the void.

As soon as 911 was notified, members of the force tried to contact him so that he would depose his attitude. As far as this media was able to know, it was not an easy task and it forced the intervention of a good number of troops from different divisions to get it down.

According to official sources, they worked in the uniform of the Federal Special Rescue Group (BEFER), the Special Rescue Group (GER) and Personnel of the VI Fire Station of the City.

In the same way, at the beginning of last February a strong operation was mounted in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Parque Chas that ended with a heroic maneuver to save a woman who tried to commit suicide by throwing herself from the fifth floor.

The moment of greatest tension occurred when the woman completely let go, after the first cash came down to the balcony in question and tried to calm her down. Fortunately, the agent managed to hold her until one of his colleagues was able to reach the apartment and between the two of them they managed to return her to the inside of the building.

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