What was to be "the best trip" of his life ended in tragedy.
Juan Florez Estrada Orlandis Habsburgo
, a tourist from Madrid who was in Argentina, died this Sunday in
the coastal city of Mar del Plata after falling from a cliff while trying to take a photo
, judicial sources confirmed to EFE.
The 39-year-old man was identified thanks to the fact that an Argentine friend presented her passport to the police station.
Florez Estrada had fallen this Sunday from a 25-meter-high cliff
, in the coastal city, about 430 kilometers from Buenos Aires, and died at night while being transferred by ambulance to the Interzonal Hospital.
The accident occurred when
the Spaniard stood on the edge of the cliff after asking some passers-by to take a photo of him
.
According to these witnesses, the man got too close to the edge, the earth began to move, which crumbled and fell into the void.
After the accident, he contacted the police authorities.
The place where Florez Estrada fell could not be accessed by land, so it was the lifeguards who came swimming
to him, according to
Clarín
.
Special Risk agents of the Buenos Aires Police also had to intervene to rappel and place him on a stretcher to be able to evacuate him.
According to the Argentine newspaper, he was rushed to the hospital, but died due to the seriousness of his injuries: head trauma and fractures throughout his body.
The result of the autopsy is not yet known.
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