Después de conocerse la de Blaquier’s tragedythe toxicologist explained what could have been the causes that led to the death of the six men in a septic tank. In this way, a group of people fail, where one of them falls into a sewer pit and the rest try to save him.
“Specific wells produce, like all decomposition of organic material, the first butane. Please draw my attention to the fact that we have created so many victims because of this It is a combustion gasone of the mixtures that holds the cooking gas and rarely intoxicates, but suffocatespeople feel that the air is holding them back, but it allows them to retreat from the place,” commented Carlos Damín in an interview with TN End of the week.
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Ricardo Bottega was the first to die. He was 60 years old. (Photo: Facebook / Mateo Pellegrino – Ricardo Bottega – Juan Ramón Sánchez)
“Oxygen causes the problem, the gas displaces the air and people feel that it affects their air even though they have access to another place and can breathe,” he added. Next I discovered that inside the septic tank “I usually make other types of gases with chemical contaminants”. “This type of dead person makes me think about it more hydrocyanic acidwhich is cyanide gas”, I stand in for the toxicologist.
According to him, “it is very rare that these failures occur regularly because butane, which is the most common, rarely causes death,” he said. He also suggested that the use of a gas mask could have avoided the tragedy. “It kind of makes me think about the combination of gases, because butane gas is produced in a permanent form in every septic room and is easily identified by the smell it contains,” he assured.
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It took place in this area in Bonaero. (Photo: Gentileza Semanario)
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“If they encounter another gas produced by a combination of different substances, which is something common in cloacal desagüe, it is likely that in second place is this hydrogen cyanide gas that causes death. It’s absolutely deadly. It is the gas that caused the Cromañón tragedy,” he continued.
“We are talking about speculation, because we will keep the results until the toxicological examinations are done,” said Damín.