This 27-year-old footballer has died after falling from a precipice while on a walk with his three-month pregnant wife on Boxing Day. Uruguayan footballer Maximiliano Pereira, 27, died at the Salto del Penitente waterfall located near the city of Minas in the Uruguayan department of Lavalleja on 26th December. Local…
Uruguay's former Minister of Defence has become the country's first victim of the coronavirus pandemic. Uruguay's National Emergency System confirmed former government minister Rodolfo Gonzalez Rissotto had died after contracting COVID-19 at the age of 71. Rissotto was one of the nine patients with coronavirus hospitalised in intensive care units…
Story By: Jonathan Macias, Sub Editor: Alex Cope, Agency:Central European News A Uruguayan fisherman is in hot water for reportedly dragging to shore the bloodied carcasses of 12 protected sharks he reportedly caught to sell on the beach. The incident took place in the seaside resort of Punta del Diablo in the eastern Uruguayan…
Video Credit: CEN This is the moment groups of Uruguayan and Argentine revellers engage in a mass brawl outside a nightclub in a popular coastal resort in broad daylight. The incident was filmed out the La Rinconada club in the city of Piriapolis in the southern Uruguayan department of Maldonado,…
Story By: Ana Lacasa, Sub Editor: Joseph Golder, Agency: CEN Video Credit: CEN This is the moment a massive blaze rages from the roof of a luxury hotel leading to the evacuation of over 137 guests. The fire broke out at the Grand Hotel in the city of Punta del Este in the south-eastern Uruguayan department of Maldonado…
