Buenos Aires, March 25 (NA) – Thiago Vera, the 18-year-old youth who was seriously injured by a head blow during the explosion of a gas cylinder depot in the Mariano Acosta area, was operated on at the Eva Perón Municipal Hospital in Merlo. Sources in the case informed the Argentine News Agency that the victim entered the operating room at 13:00 and his health status is “delicate”. “He has a strong blow to the head,” the spokespeople consulted stated, while Víctor Hugo Tuller, Diego Hernán Robledo, and Oscar Raúl Cross, employees of the premises, suffered second and third-degree burns and were admitted to the same health center, where they also underwent surgery. The three workers were in the intensive care unit due to their injuries. The accident was triggered when an electric kettle was connected near one of the tanks that had a leak. The owner of the depot, identified as 51-year-old Oscar Alejandro Benítez, will remain detained after refusing to testify at UFI No. 6 in Morón.
