Froilanis Rivas, a 34-year-old Venezuelan woman, died on Tuesday, November 14. After lightning struck a beach in Cartagena.
According to Álvaro Cruz, director of the Emergency and Emergency Regulation Center (Crue) in Cartagena, Rivas was taken to a medical center shortly after being discharged.
“The woman was transported by AMI ambulance from Playa Azul Boquilla to Serena del Mar Hospital and admitted to the cardiorespiratory emergency.”Cruz said in a video report.
According to the Crue director, “Doctors tried to resuscitate him for 45 minutes but were later declared dead.”.
Now, while the incident continues to be discussed in Cartagena, Rivas’ family is requesting urgent help.
(You can read: Lightning expert tells what happened to woman who died after being discharged in Cartagena).
As pointed out last Tuesday by Daniel Aranguren, doctor of Electrical Engineering and director of Keraunos, a famous lightning detection firm There was a storm just 15 kilometers from where Florianis Rivas was located.
In an interview with ‘Noticias Caracol’, he stated that “around 250 lightning bolts” struck the area an hour before the fatal incident.
(Also: How to reduce the chance of being struck by lightning during a storm?).
And now the dead woman’s family has done this. An urgent appeal for his remains to be returned to Valencia, Venezuelawhere the young woman is from.
Rivas’ relatives arranged for savings account number 49500003152 at Bancolombia to receive assistance.
“Any grain of sand would be welcomed,” they said in a message shared on different social networks.
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