Overview
- Authorities identified the victim as 16-year-old Axel Rosales Cornejo, a fourth-year secondary student.
- Witnesses report he slipped while using a bucket at the canal’s edge and was swept away by a strong seasonal current.
- The incident occurred late morning in the Vista Florida sector of Marcavelica, near the family home in Sullana.
- Serenazgo, district police and the UNEME rescue unit entered the roughly 2.5-meter-deep Canal Norte to comb multiple sections with ropes.
- Local reports differ on the exact point of the canal, citing kilometer 3 or kilometer 7+643, and the search continued without results as of Friday.