Reguengos de Monsaraz: Farmer dies buried in the trench in a vineyard.
A farmer 64 years died yesterday, buried following a landslide, a nearby property Reguengos de Monsaraz.
The accident occurred at about 10,15 hours, when José Carrilho, the owner of the estate, where a vineyard is planted, It was picked up by a rotating machine that was the opening of a trench to lay the pipeline allowing the flow of surplus irrigation water on the property.
The site of the fatal accident is near the Agricultural Cooperative premises of Reguengos de Monsaraz (CARMINE), a dirt road that connects this town to Mourao. According to the explanations of Inácio Pacheco, Fire commander of Reguengos de Monsaraz Volunteer (BVRM), "The shunter machine only realized when the accident failed to see the man and see the ditch too full", summed up.
Given or alert, and despite the readiness of the operational BVRM, nothing could be done, since after removal of soil, José Carrilho was dead. The choir was initially removed from the health center of the Alentejo town and then to the Institute of Forensic Medicine of Évora, where it will be autopsied.
On site were 9 operating of Reguengos de Monsaraz Fire, supported by 3 Car and GNR, occurrence that took account.
Teixeira Correia
(journalist)
