by At the same time that a body was found floating five miles from the coast, in Claromecó, the family of Federico Saihueque Cuevas He celebrated a mass at the Nuestra Señora del Carmen church, in Tres Arroyos, to ask for the appearance of the young man who disappeared ten days ago at sea. Both events, mass and discovery, occurred almost simultaneously. This Thursday, It is confirmed that the body belongs to the boy.
The discovery of a body floating in the sea was made by a group of fishermen who were sailing in a straight line to the Claromecó lighthouse. They notified the Naval Prefecture, which days before he had found the kayak with which the boy had entered the sea, rescued the body and transferred it to the morgue of the Pirovano Hospital, in Tres Arroyos.
On this Thursday afternoon, after 6 p.m., they performed the autopsy: sources from the Municipality of Tres Arroyos confirmed to Clarion that it was Saihueque.
“He is wearing black shorts,” said a source dedicated to the search, “similar to the one the boy was wearing when he was last seen,” the day he rented a kayak at the Puerto Mosquito dock, in the Claromecó stream. It was Sunday, January 21, he was alone and he came out with a life jacket on.
Hugo Cortés, the place’s concessionaire for just over two decades, rents kayaks and canoes, but in no case does he allow them to be used to measure himself in the sea. But Saihueque ignored the prohibition and rowed towards the mouth, as later confirmed by security cameras. “At no time did he go to the waterfall area of the stream, he went straight to the sea,” the merchant had told this newspaper.
Before the disappearance, the first report that was made was for theft: the dealer believed that the young man to whom he had rented a kayak at 5 in the afternoon, being 8, had stolen it. “I had to return an hour later, as has already happened to me, I went to the police station,” he explained. It was later learned that the boy had disappeared at sea.
Federico who had 25 years, He worked at a courier service in Tres Arroyos in the morning and, in the afternoon, as an entrepreneur, he offered hairdressing and barbering services. “A very good, healthy, hard-working boy,” a relative recalled him..
Two days after the disappearance, a coast guard from the Naval Prefecture found an orange kayak with both ends painted black, floating 19 miles from the coast. The dealership later confirmed that it was the one he had rented from Saihueque.
On Tuesday, the Saihueque Cuevas family had reported that they would celebrate a mass “so that we all pray for him to appear, but more than anything so that his spirit and soul are at peace.”
It was in the Nuestra Señora del Carmen church, almost simultaneously with the discovery of the body: “We want you to accompany us in this moment of great sadness and uncertainty, because we always trust that God listens and guides us whatever the time and place.”
“We appreciate the good energy received from everyone and willingness to help with the search, even if it means sharing his photo so we can locate him soon,” said the relatives. His remains will be buried this Friday morning in the local cemetery.
