translated from Spanish: Neuquén: construction company raided by the explosion in a school

The Public Prosecutor’s Office of Neuquén (MPF) carried out today, in the Neuquén city of Cipolletti, the raid of the construction company in charge of the expansion of the hostel school 144 in the town of Aguada San Roque, where on June 29 an explosion caused the death of two workers and a teacher. The diligence was carried out at the headquarters of the construction company Arte S.R.L. and was requested by the prosecutor of the case, Ana Mathieu, with the accompaniment of the chief prosecutor Maximiliano Breide Obeid, through a judicial injunction sent to a judge of Río Negro.In addition, four other raids were carried out to take information of the work. The data was seized from the offices of the Provincial Council of Education (CPE), the Ministry of Education, the headquarters of district 6 of Education in Centenario and the Ministry of Public Works.” The objective of the measure was to seize various documents and computer equipment with information about the work where the incident occurred, which is under investigation as culpable homicide,” the MPF said in a statement, through its website. On the other hand, the Ministry in charge of this procedure, reported that the private home of a professional linked to the work, located in the city of Neuquén, was also raided.It should be recalled that the event for which this investigation is carried out occurred on June 29, when two workers, accompanied by a teacher, went to a sector of the expansion work of the school alerted by the existence of a gas leak. At that moment there was the explosion that killed the two men instantly and caused serious burns to the teacher who died days later, at the Institute of Burning of Mendoza.

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