Buenos Aires, April 5 (NA) – A couple missing since last night during the storm that hit Tucumán province was found dead in their car by provincial police in the Nueva Italia neighborhood, about 400 meters from Route 9. The couple, Mariano Robles (28) and Solana Albornoz (32), last contacted their family around 9 p.m. after attending a wedding, reporting they were stranded and waiting for the water to recede to resume their journey home. With this couple's death, the number of fatalities from the storm that struck Tucumán on Saturday night rises to at least three. The storm caused street flooding, downed trees, and claimed the life of a teenager in the south of the provincial capital. According to the Argentine News Agency, based on initial reports, around 110 millimeters of rain fell in a three-hour period, collapsing arteries in the microcenter and much of the urban area. This morning, the State Secretariat of Communication reported that 'a teenager died from electrocution while walking on public roads amid flooded streets, at the intersection of Democracia and 9 de Julio.' This victim is in addition to Robles and Albornoz, whose bodies were found this afternoon, confirmed by Tucumán Police Chief Commissioner Joaquín Alfredo Girvau to the press. The couple's relatives, who had left their children with a babysitter to attend the wedding, alerted authorities about their disappearance last night, having lost contact around 9 p.m. At that time, they were in their vehicle, waiting for the storm to ease to return home.
