The Las Atalayas tragedy leaves at least 13 dead in the count on Sunday night. The painful stories of family and friends of the victims went around the world yesterday – many international media echoed the tragedy. Among those that have emerged, several attendees at a birthday party. One of them was saved because he had gone down to another floor to order a drink.
Eric, a 30-year-old young man of Nicaraguan origin, was celebrating his birthday with family and friends. Both Eric’s mother and one of his cousins ??are among the deceased. Walter, of the same age, told the media yesterday that he saved her life because at that moment he had gone down to order a drink.
Then came the smoke and the eviction. “We immediately saw that the smoke was coming from the upper floor and the club employees began to tell us to evacuate,” he said, in statements reported by ‘La Verdad’ of Murcia. “Between the workers and some of the people who were downstairs, we helped many people get out onto the streets,” she added. Walter saw “smoke and a flare” in the air conditioning duct, reports the newspaper ‘Ideal’. Both he and the friend who had accompanied him to the bar were able to leave the premises.
Another of the testimonies that has shrunk the heart is the father of a young Ecuadorian woman who shared with the media the audio that his daughter, trapped in the fire, sent them to say goodbye to them.
“It’s horrible, nothing is known yet and it could have happened to any of us who have children of age to go out at night. My children, fortunately, stayed home last night,” said another man who had gone to the area in tears yesterday. looking for information from a friend of his wife. There he met a co-worker who had lost his son. Grief for family members and survivors will be hard. “The meaninglessness of death is redoubled in this case, apparently an unnatural fact,” psychologist José R. Ubieto explains in La Vanguardia.
