Bárbara Bell Sánchez, who together with her husband served as pastors in the Christian community of Jovellanos (Matanzas), died this Thursday in a traffic accident registered in Guyana. According to the Police department of the South American country, the Cuban was one of the passengers of the Route 94 minibus that caught fire after colliding with a van in the town of Mabura.
Pastor Carlos Macías López confirmed the news through his Facebook account and he said that he met Bell Sánchez and her husband Juan Rodríguez Escalona in the Park Temple congregation where “they served as pastors for many years.”
In the damaged minibus, owned by Eon Sinclair de Kitty, there were 13 people and the driver. Police stressed in his report Initial that Bell Sánchez was located in a seat behind the driver identified as Kirk Allicock and that at the moment of impact “she was trapped” while the vehicle caught fire.
The driver and the other passengers, including other Cubans of whom they did not provide details, presented injuries and were taken to the Linden hospital. Due to the seriousness of the injuries, four of these people had to be transferred to the public hospital located in Georgetown.
Bell Sánchez was located in a seat behind the driver and at the moment of impact “she was trapped” while the vehicle caught fire
The Police still do not have data on the registration number of the truck and the name of the driver.
In Mexico, the death of another Cuban identified as Pedro Armando Uría Valdés, who left the island on December 21, was registered. The migrant was killed during an assault in Tijuana, a city on the US border. Uría Valdés had crossed into Yuma, Arizona, but was returned to Mexico.
Jose Miguel Rojas, cousin of the deceased, told Telemundo 51 that Uría Valdés was in Tijuana waiting to legally enter the United States, however, the lack of money led him to look for work in a sheet metal workshop. On his first day of work, the place was the scene of a violent assault, where the Cuban ended up tied up and executed by the criminals.
Rojas said that through a call they informed him that his cousin had been killed in the place where he had found work. “Some assailants took two trucks. So, I called the Tijuana morgue and a forensic doctor confirmed it.”
Uría Valdés left his father, a son and his wife on the island, who are trying to find help to transfer the body to Cuba. Rojas specified that his cousin was forced to leave his country because he “was constantly harassed by the authorities due to his earnings” from his carpentry business.
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