Woman Falls Into A Well In Buenos Aires

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A placid summer Sunday in a neighborhood of Greater Buenos Aires became a nightmare for a woman who was literally swallowed by the earth.

According to the Argentine press, Claudia Perlata was hanging clothes in the patio of her house in Villa Adelina, on the outskirts of the capital, when a deep well six meters (19 feet) in diameter and 10 meters (32 feet) in diameter was opened. depth where there was a canvas pool.

“My old lady was lifting and hanging clothes. When I woke up, I started to clean the sink (pool) because my niece was coming to visit. So I asked her for help,”one of the woman's sons, Javier, told the media.

“Having a little water, it was a little heavy for her. Then she told me to wait a little longer for the drain to finish. Then, just put her foot on the tile, in a second my mom disappeared. I barely got to hear 'ah'. I turn around and see everything black, I don't see her. I was screaming all the time 'old, old, old!'”She added.

What had happened was that the woman had disappeared into the huge well and was at the bottom, in the water that had caused the sinkhole. "It will have been submerged for about two minutes. Until God brought her up and gave her strength to continue floating, "explained the boy.

Despite the efforts of family members and neighbors, who threw ropes and a hose at her, the woman did not let her out of the deep hole until firefighters arrived, who took her to the hospital with several injuries due to the fall.