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It happened in Tucuman. The victim was beaten and suffocated in her house. The attackers took the wallet in which she kept her pension money.
A 70-year-old woman was beaten to death and suffocated in her home in the town of Banda del Río Salí, near the capital of Tucumán.
According to preliminary data provided by the local police, it is believed that it was a homicide during robbery since his wallet was not found where, in theory, he kept his retirement money.
The retiree was identified as Delmira del Carmen Gallo and her body was found this Saturday at her home, a PH-type building, located on Florida street at 300 of the Alberdi neighborhood
As confirmed by some local media, the woman lived in a place where there are two more properties; The one in front works as a warehouse for a company, and in the back, her sister lives.
It was precisely her sister who alerted about the search for the woman when she tried to communicate with the victim. When she did not receive a response, she called her niece (the victim’s daughter) to ask her “if he was with her.”
Given the refusal, Gallo’s daughter approached the place and entered the house. There, she found her mother in her room, lying on the bed, face down; and she informed the police.
The troops verified that the woman was dead and intervened with the Homicide Prosecutor Unit I, in charge of the prosecutor Ignacio López Bustos, who ordered the arrival of the Scientific Team of Fiscal Investigations (ECIF) to the place.
The forensic doctor confirmed that the woman had several blows to the face, a fracture in the nasal septum and indications that she died of suffocation.
The body was transferred to the judicial morgue for an autopsy and the results will be known in the next few hours.
Gallo’s daughter assured that in recent days her mother received her pension, money that she usually leaves in a wallet that was not found in the house and pointed out that some time ago they had already robbed her.
From the testimonies published by the newspaper La Gaceta, a neighbor reported that during the early hours of Saturday he heard noises on the roofs and that at that moment there were loud barking dogs.
