The Prosecutor of Instruction of District 1 Shift IV, Rubén Caro, confirmed this morning that the cause of the fatal fire in a building in Nueva Córdoba in which two young people died was the overheating of the lithium battery of a notebookk.
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Expertise
“Many times we believe that it only happens when they are overloaded, when they have a problem, but we have really seen that These lithium batteries are quite treacherous and can cause terrible damage“explained the judicial official at a press conference.
He also specified that according to the conclusions of the Fire Department, the incident originated in the dining room area, “more precisely in the sector close to the northwest vertex.”
“The thermal source that started could be represented by self-heating in the notebook computer battery”he emphasized in statements released by Miter Córdoba.
Caro pointed out that through the testimony of Pablo Apaza, the only survivor of the fire, it was possible to “reliably determine all the furniture that was in the apartment, the notes, a pile of papers and other easily combustible elements as well as where the computers and other cell phones that belonged to the boys.”
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Tragedy
The tragic episode occurred on March 28 in apartment “A” on the 12th floor of a building located at 400 Hipólito Yrigoyen Avenue, where three students from the province of Jujuy resided.
Tiziano Tejerina, 18, who had settled in the capital of Córdoba to study medicine at the National University of Córdoba (UNC), died there.
The other fatal victim, Sebastián Liquín (19), suffered serious injuries after falling from the 12th floor into an internal patio when trying to escape the flames.
Liquín was taken to the Emergency Hospital, where he later died from the serious injuries suffered.
Pablo Apaza, the only survivor of the tragedy, managed to descend to a window on the ground floor and was rescued by fire personnel.