The president of the Argentine Rural Society (SRA) Nicolas Pino received two packages that contained explosives which detonated and injured the secretary of the agrarian leader. The incident occurred in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Palermo.
After what happened, the police intervened SAME who urgently attended to the woman who suffered facial wounds due to the explosive package. The victim was immediately transferred to a health center.
The attack on the president of the Argentine Rural Society
This morning in the Palermo neighborhood, two packages with explosives were sent to recipients in Nicholas Pino and the Vice President of the SRA, Marcos PeredaThe first package exploded and injured Pino’s secretary.
After the explosion, employees were evacuated from the building. The second package was not opened and is already being intervened the Explosives Brigade to be able to deactivate it.
According to the information provided by the authorities so far, the explosive in the first package had no shrapnelfor which the authorities assured that It was not intended to “cause harm”.
As a result of the incident, Four people had to be transferred to the Fernández Hospital for having interacted with the package, despite being unharmed. Only the secretary filed a complaint hematoma after what happened.
In addition, the authorities are already reviewing security cameras to be able to clarify what happened. According to police information, the shipments were sent to the headquarters on street Juncal at 4450 and the area is closed off by the security operation.
The Secretary of Security of the City of Buenos Aires, Diego Kravetzand the Minister of Security of CABA, Waldo Wolffare heading to the scene to continue the ongoing investigation.
“A controlled explosion of the package was carried out,” confirmed Minister Wolff about the second package. The Buenos Aires official added: “It was an artifact that was intended to do this.“.
As for the second package, Wolff He assured that for both the protocols for explosivesHowever, after detonating the second one they realized it was a “royal commission“.
The Rural Society’s statement
The Argentine Rural Society issued a statement in which they confirmed that, at its Headquarters, “They received a package that generated smoke when opened.“what activated the”building security protocol“.
Regarding the situation of the victims, the SRA clarified that “Nobody was hurt” although they also detailed that the people who “were in contact with the smoke“They were referred to a health center for monitoring and care.
“We want to reassure the families of the authorities and the work team, the partners and the citizens that We are all in perfect condition“, the text stated. On the other hand, Coninagro expressed solidarity with what happened with the SRA through a statement on social networks: “We are dismayed by a situation which is unthinkable in our countrywe drastically reject these acts of violence and we ask that this extremely serious fact be clarified urgently,” the text concluded.
Source: Ambito
