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A12 WORLD NEWS
Saturday 25 November 2017

Argentina president: Search for missing sub will continue

members,” President Mau- crew that first brought the
ricio Macri said in his first sub from Germany to Ar-
public comments about gentina in 1985.
the missing sub at the na- “It was a reliable subma-
vy’s headquarters in Bue- rine.”
nos Aires. The sub was originally
“I’m here to guarantee scheduled to arrive Mon-
you that we will carry on day to a navy base in Mar
with the search, especially del Plata, about 250 miles
now that we have the sup- (400 kilometers) southeast
port of all the international of Buenos Aires.
community.” Local residents prayed for
More than a dozen air- the crew’s return during a
planes and ships have religious ceremony outside
been participating in the the base Friday.
multinational search across Some relatives of the crew
an area of some 185,000 who have gathered there
square miles (480,000 fear that their loved ones
square kilometers), which will no longer be rescued.
is roughly the size of Spain. “Hope is the last thing you
The Argentine navy said lose.
Friday that Russia is send- I’m waiting for a surprise,
ing an Antonov transport but I’m not really count-
aircraft and a ship in the ing on it,” Luis Tagliapietra,
southern Patagonian port father of 27-year-old crew
Argentine President Mauricio Macri gives a statement about the missing submarine at the navy of Comodoro Rivadavia is member Alejandro Da-
headquarters in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Friday, Nov. 24, 2017. Macri said the international search being adapted to carry a mian Tagliapietra, told The
for a submarine carrying 44 crew members that has been lost in the South Atlantic since Nov. 15 U.S. Navy submarine res- Associated Press.
will continue and that the sub’s disappearance will be investigated. cue chamber. They will fo- “You go from denial to suf-
(AP Photo/Victor R. Caivano)
cus the search efforts on a fering, from optimism to
By LUIS ANDRES HENAO ance will be investigated. Navy officials and outside smaller area where the ex- pessimism,” he said, hold-
ALMUDENA CALATRAVA The Argentine navy says an experts also worry that plosion was recorded. ing back tears.
Associated Press explosion occurred near even if the sub is intact but The ARA San Juan, a Ger- When he found out about
MAR DEL PLATA, Argentina the time and place where submerged, its crew may man-built diesel-electric the explosion from his son’s
(AP) — Argentina’s presi- the submarine went miss- be running out of oxygen. TR-1700 class submarine, direct superior, he was told
dent said Friday an interna- ing on Nov. 15 as it was “The disappearance and was commissioned in 1985 that there was a possibility
tional search will continue sailing from the extreme current search of the ARA and was most recently re- there were no survivors.
for a submarine carrying southern port of Ushuaia to San Juan submarine has fitted in 2014. “I asked them if they were
44 crew members that the coastal city of Mar del touched all Argentines. It’s “No one goes out to sea all dead, and he said:
has been lost in the South Plata. That’s led some fam- a difficult moment for all, knowing that they can lose ‘Yes.’”
Atlantic for nine days and ily members of the crew to but obviously, especially for their life,” said Ramon Fran- Some family members
that the sub’s disappear- give up hope of a rescue. the families of the 44 crew cisco, who was part of the have denounced the na-
vy’s response to the disap-
Autopsy shows protester drowned: no foul play pearance and the condi-
tion of the 30-year-old ves-
sel.
BUENOS AIRES, Argentina posing political parties had The 28-member board said belonging to Italian cloth- Although Macri said that
(AP) — Argentine authori- also joined rights activists in that Madonado’s body ing company Benetton it’s not the time to point fin-
ties said Friday that an a social media campaign spent 73 days in the water that are claimed by the gers at anyone, he prom-
activist, whose disappear- demanding the govern- that there is no evidence of Mapuche as their ances- ised a probe of the sub’s
ance during a protest ment find the artisan and body injuries. tral territory. Witnesses said disappearance.
prompted nationwide pro- tattoo artist alive. His body was found Oct. 17 they saw police beat and “This demands a serious,
tests, drowned and are rul- Maldonado’s family has in a river in southern Chubut detain Maldonado after deep investigation,” Macri
ing out foul play. said that border police province near the location he and others blocked a said.
Tens of thousands of people killed him. of a protest on Aug. 1, the road in Chubut province, “We need to understand
demonstrated in Argentina But the forensic medical day he was last seen. about 1,100 miles (1,800 ki- how a submarine that had
after Santiago Maldonado board said Friday that Mal- Protesters were demand- lometers) southwest of the undergone a midlife refit,
went missing in August. donado died from “asphyx- ing the release of a jailed Argentine capital. Police and that was in perfect
Soccer players, celebrities ia after being submerged” Mapuche indigenous lead- never confirmed the arrest conditions to sail, suffered
and politicians from op- along with hypothermia. er and the return of lands and denied wrongdoing.q this explosion.”q