Between Wednesday (5) and Thursday (6), Seven deaths were recorded in the metropolitan region of Recife due to heavy rains that reach Pernambuco. Three of these victims were electrocuted as they walked in the rain – young people who left home to perform everyday tasks, such as working, studying and buying bread, and did not return to their families.
In a statement, the Pernambuco Military Fire Department (CBMPE) reported that by the late afternoon of Thursday, 322 adults, 39 children and three animals were rescued. The total deaths since the beginning of the rains reached seven, with a victim in Camaragibe, one in Paulista and five in Recife.
Among the deaths from electric shock, the first occurred on the morning of Wednesday (5). Juan Pablo da Silva Melo, 21, was electrocuted while walking through a flooded area on Don Bosco Street, in downtown Recife. The report of the Institute of Forensic Medicine (IML) confirmed that he died due to electroplesion – a technical term that refers to death or injury caused by an accidental electric discharge. The Secretariat of Social Defense of Pernambuco reported, in a statement, that it collected the body of a man in death to clarify, in the same street, in the neighborhood of Boa Vista.
Pernambuco neoenergia, responsible for energy distribution in the state, stated that it did not find a current leakage in the electric network of Dom Bosco Street, and that the region’s infrastructure remained intact. The company reported that technicians identified an irregular connection in the files installed on the sidewalk of a private college in Recife, a fact passed on to the police authority for investigation.
On Wednesday afternoon, another case of electric discharge resulted in the death of Valdomiro Simões da Silva Neto, 18. He was returning from work when, as he passed a flooded area in the Jardim São Paulo neighborhood, he touched the wall of an abandoned house and suffered the fatal shock. The Pernambuco Civil Police said they investigate the occurrence as a death to be clarified. The case was registered by the São Paulo Jardim Police Station, West Zone of Recife, and a police inquiry was opened.
The third death for electric shock occurred on Wednesday night, in Paulista, in the metropolitan region. The victim was Myriam Vitória Amorim da Silva, 24. She was back from the bakery when she was hit by an electric discharge when she leaned against a pole on Antonio Cabral de Souza Avenue, dying at the scene. The Civil Police of Pernambuco, through the 08th Paulista Police Station, recorded the occurrence as death to clarify, with signs of electroplesion. An inquiry was opened to investigate the circumstances.
As for the case in Paulista, neoenergia reported that there was no broken wiring or current leakage in the distribution network on site. The structure pointed out by residents as a possible cause of fatality was identified as a grounding wire of a private property, according to neoenergia.
Other deaths
The Recife Metropolitan Region also recorded deaths from barriers and drowning. One of the victims, a young woman, was sleeping with her mother when both were buried by a landslide in the Passarinho community, in the North Zone of Recife, on Thursday (6).
Among the fatalities in the capital, a man drowned on Rua Lázaro Fontes, in the Estância neighborhood, in the west of the capital, on Wednesday.
Another victim was André Fernandes, 43. He had disappeared after leaving his house in the Várzea neighborhood, West Zone of Recife, to work in the center of Camaragibe on Wednesday. According to police, it was the population itself that found the body and called the firefighters.
This content was originally published in heavy rains in PE Cause Seven Deaths, including three by electric shock on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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