Manuela Jaqueline Ponce, a 21-year-old girl who was in the second year of her Master Gardener degree, was run over in the last few hours by a group of drug traffickers on the run in the town of Santo Tomé, in Corrientes. The victim died instantly.
Every day at the same time Manuela made the same trip by motorcycle to return home, but this Wednesday left a few minutes before from the Jorge Luis Borges Higher Institute, where he studied.
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Almost simultaneously, the Prefecture followed a dark-colored Renault Fluence along Route 94 and Manuela ended up, due to a bad move of fate, in the in the middle of that chase. Then the car in which the suspects were traveling made a bad maneuver and He hit her head-on and at a very high speed.according to a source close to the cause detailed Época Newspaper. “The vehicle was traveling so fast that after colliding with the motorcycle, it was turned around facing the opposite direction,†the spokesperson added.
The suspects left the inside of the car several bags with bricks of marijuana and managed to escape in another support car. Meanwhile, the victim was thrown several meters due to the violence of the impact and his body was later found almost on the shore of the river. He did not receive medical assistance and died at the scene.
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The investigation
Due to the fact They opened two parallel cases. The first has to do with the death of the student and it was classified by prosecutor Facundo Cabral as “simple homicide with possible intent.” On the other hand, the Federal Justice investigates the origin of the seized drugs. Among the first measures, investigators are analyzing videos from security cameras in the area to identify the suspects, who are still at large.
The statement from the Institute where the victim was studying. (Photo: courtesy of Radio Dos).
Manuela was in the second year of the Initial Education Teacher Training at the Jorge Luís Borges Higher Teacher Training Institute. The institution released a statement on the networks after the death of her student and suspended this Thursday due to grief its educational and administrative activities.