An 17 year-old Argentinian girl enjoying her last day in the Dominican Republic died after she reportedly stepped on a live wire while on a beach.
Melina Caputa who was walking barefoot back to her Hotel room in Punta Cana received a deadly electric shock in front of her brothers and cousins last week.
The teenager, who had been studying natural sciences at a school in Argentine city of San Juan, was immediately electrocuted and died, despite efforts from paramedics to save her.
Preliminary investigations reveal that the 17-year-old died from cardio-respiratory failure, although an autopsy has yet to confirm those findings, according to the newspaper. Globalia, the owner of the Be Live hotel where Caputo’s family stayed, has also supposedly denied that there were any live wires on the premises.
