Taxi driver found dead after falling into Odivelas River

The body of Belarmino Silva, a 63-year-old taxi driver who went missing after he lost his trail and fell into the Odivelas stream in Povoa de Santo Adrião, was found Sunday afternoon on a beach on the Tagus River in Barreira. , after the Brazilian citizenship couple raised the alarm.

The accident happened around 2:00 am this Sunday, in an unguarded area, and after the taxi driver went astray, another car also went astray and fell into the creek. Two people received minor injuries.

Around 08:00 the cars were evacuated.

Lusa’s agent was told by a PSP source that the agent “managed to pull a passenger out of the water after he got out of the cab and found himself clinging to a tree. However, he failed to save the taxi driver. When the fire department arrived, the car was gone.”

The second incident occurred after the road was closed and the driver was arrested after being rescued for being drunk.

Two victims with minor injuries were taken to the Beatriz Angelo hospital in Loures.

In an assessment made in the morning, the authorities said that at the beginning of the operation they still managed to establish contact with the taxi driver.

“We were always in touch with her. [a pessoa desaparecida]but at some point he stopped answering us,” Nelson Viana, commander of the Odivelas Volunteer Firefighters, told reporters, adding that the communication was conducted through the broken glass of a taxi.

The search involved four boats laid along the route “from the Trancao River, Sakawem, to Odivelas and from Odivelas to Sakawem”, a water scooter of the fire department, two groups of drones of the Alcabideche firefighters and the Civil Protection Special Forces. and dismounted groups searching the riverbed.

Searches are conducted for 15 kilometers.