Last Saturday, April 4, it was reported the discovery of two minors who were found dead in the refrigerator of their home in Vista Hermosa, department of Meta.
According to the first reports, The minors would have remained alone in the house. Upon noticing that they had not appeared for a long time, their relatives went to the house and found them inside a refrigerator.
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Although both were immediately taken to a hospital, The medical staff confirmed that they arrived without vital signs.
Children under 8 and 5 years old would have been left alone. Photo:Social networks.
“We went out to look for food and look for a shirt that they needed for a parade when they went to study. We went out and it took us an hour and 20 minutes, more or less. The freezer was unplugged,” Brayan Guevara Triviño, the children’s father, told this newspaper at the time.
According to the father of children under 5 and 8 years old: “The children climbed up and got (into the refrigerator), played, the lid fell off, they got trapped and they suffocated.”
Upon arriving at the house, the parents realized the absence of the minors, who, according to their father, “They had the habit of playing at hiding and you would go look for them.”
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New details of the death of the minors
According to authorities, the evidence collected so far indicates that It would have been a tragic accident that ended up causing the death of the minors.
Colonel Nelson Zambrano, commander of the Meta Police, stated: “This has an investigative process, it is a very regrettable fact. So far, As the National Police, we can say that it is an accidental death, according to the material evidence we have so far, but the investigation will continue. “At this time it is an accidental event, we regret what happened.”in conversation with Blu Radio.
The deceased minors. Photo:Social networks.
How did the events of April 4 develop?
According to the authorities’ preliminary reconstruction, the tragedy occurred on the afternoon of Saturday, April 4, when the parents of the two minors They left the house to carry out errands and they left the children alone for several hours.
Upon returning to the house, in Vista Hermosa, Meta, they noticed that They couldn’t find their children and started looking for them throughout the house.initially thinking that it was of one of the usual hide-and-seek games that the minors had.
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The heartbreaking discovery
According to the version given by the family and compiled by the authorities, during that search The parents opened a freezer or refrigerator that they used to store ice and there they found the two brothers trapped inside.
They were immediately transferred to the municipal hospital, but doctors confirmed that they had arrived without vital signs.
The deceased minors. Photo:Social networks.
The mayor of Vista Hermosa, Juan Andrés Gómez, explained that the main hypothesis of the investigation is that lThe minors would have entered the appliance while playing and then were accidentally locked in.
“They looked for them and they were in the refrigerator,” the president said about what the parents said. He later added that, according to the first investigations, The children “did not manage to get out”, which would have caused their death from asphyxiation.
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The president also indicated that the case remains under investigation while Legal Medicine issues the final opinion, although Preliminary inspections did not reveal signs of violence.
In addition, he called for reflection to parents and caregivers after the tragedy: ““Children should not be left alone,” warned, insisting on the importance of taking extreme supervision measures to avoid similar accidents.
Daniela Gutiérrez Munar
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