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By: EFE
Photo: Joe Raedle / Getty Images
By: EFE
Three teenagers died after the car in which they were fleeing from the police fell into a canal in Homestead, a city south of Miami (Florida) , reported local authorities.
As reported by the spokesman for the Homestead, Eric Rodriguez, the vehicle fell into a canal early Saturday morning and after that on two occasions they will ignore a stop signal made by the agents, and later turn off the lights and flee.
According to the authorities, when the officers and firefighters arrived To the channel where the vehicle ended up in its escape from the Police, they extracted three young people from the car and transferred them to local hospitals, where the doctors could do nothing to save their lives.
According to the authorities, another adolescent and fourth occupant of the car, was later located on an embankment near the scene of the accident and trasl in stable condition to a local medical center.
Local authorities have not identified the victims, but the local station WPLG, affiliated with the ABC network, said that one of the deceased is the adolescent of 14 years Terrance Valivia , whom his grandmother, Magaly Amado, described as a “good boy.”
His sister , Precious Fernández, told the media that the young man should have returned home before midnight.