“I fell to the ground and saw everything in slow motion,” Niño survived a ray

One day of rain became a blessing In the Palavé sector, in ManaguayaboSanto Domingo Oeste. Like so many other times, on Saturday, August 2, a Group of boys He went to the play from this town to bathe under the downpour they enjoyed as if it were a game.

But that afternoon did not end like all. A ray He reached them.

Two children 13 years old died: Yeurys Charles and Yelian de los Santos. A third, Youry Charles, He survived miracle and today remains admitted to the burnt unit of the Robert Reid Cabral hospital. It has 10 % of its body affected by burns, but it is stable.

His mother, Emmantete Bienime, said they are waiting for the results of An analysis that he was done to his son and sent to analyze abroad.

Tells what lived

Youry remembers everything. “We were speaking all three, catchy, when I heard the Pum! I fell to the floor and saw everything as in slow chamber, blurred. He listened to a beep in his ears, like a constant Pim, “he says from his bed in the hospital.

Says that I couldn’t move Not to mention well at the beginning. “Only I repeated in my mind: Oh my God, oh my God, “he adds.

When he still remained in the Eye count that he struggled to move some parts of his body, and it was at that moment that he thought he had lost an arm, because he did not feel it.

“I said: Where is my arm? I didn’t feel it. I was looking for desperate”he said.

Then They took him in a car To the Dr. Vinicio Calventi hospital, because, according to him, the ambulance took too much. He was then transferred to the hospital where he is currently.

“My cousin (one of the deceased) I was on top of me. I felt that I was breathing. I touched his neck and had a pulse. But later, not anymore, “the teenager lamented.

Friends since childhood

The three children They were inseparable. Friends from Chiquitos, classmates at the Professor Rafael Alberto Pérez and Santiago school. They shared the way, games and even dreams. They had the same passion for the ball, as well as Christian devotion.

“We are shattered“

Yelian’s parents, Ruth García and Rubén de los Santos, continue trying to assimilate What happened.

“One does not expect this. As a father one expects raw his sonsee it grow … and this was something supernatural, of the blink of an eye. We are shatteredbut satisfied with the Lord, “said his father.

Ruth, her mother, still can’t believe her son is gone. “He told me before leaving: ‘Mommy, give me the key, I’m going to bathe’, and I reminded him that two weeks before there was a gale. I said: Be careful. But he left. It did not spend half an hour and One of the children arrived, tremblingand he said: Madam, we all fell to the ground … Yelian is on the floor. “

He says he reacted immediately. “I ran. When I arrivedthe car where they wore it already left the play. “

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A child full of grace

Amid pain, Yelian’s parents They talk to pride of the son who raised.

“The people, the community, the Church … all have described it as if they had given birth. It was a child humblerespectful, obedient. In the school The only complaint was that he played a lot, and they said that laughing, “says his mother with a slight smile.

He adds that he never had to go to a worried school meeting. “When they sent me to look for, I was calm. I knew what I had. It was An excellence“

The Educational Community of the center Rafael Santiago It was present from the first moment. “They all came. They told me the same thing I knew about my son. A single voice. That’s what he has given me force“Ruth says.

Remember that, two hours before tragedywere studying the Bible together. “He gave me the privilege to prepare it on your way until the last day. “

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A habit that ended in tragedy

In Palavé, as in many other places, bathe in the rain It is one habit. On the same day of the event, dozens of children They were in the play. Other boys also fell to the ground along the wave of rayalthough they were not seriously injured.