Explosion in Iztapalapa impacts the educational community

UNAM laments student death

Ana Daniela Barragán19 years old, he was a student of Food Engineering at the Faculty of Higher Studies Cuautitlán. On the day of the explosion, the young woman was traveling in a taxi per application when she was trapped between the LP gas cloud and subsequently flame.

Although she was transferred to the General Hospital of Iztapalapa as unknown and subsequently to the Rubén Leñero hospital, relatives denounced little information about the whereabouts of the student.

It was until they performed a DNA test that confirmed the identity of Ana Daniela, however, he had already died, so the UNAM expressed its condolences for this loss.

Dead High and Secondary Master

Eduardo Noé García Morales53, he was a teacher in the official high school 327 of San Vicente Chicoloapan. After his morning day, he moved to his second job at high school 53, in Iztapalapa.

The Concorda bridge was an obligatory step on its journey. On Wednesday, September 10, the tragedy reached it in that place. He died hours later, on the same day of the explosion, after having been transferred to the IMSS hospital in Los Reyes La Paz.

The National Union of Education Workers, the Ministry of Public Education and the Ministry of Education of the State of Mexico regretted the death of the teacher.

This September 17, after one week of the events, in La Concordia, students of the UNAM, of the IPN and of different educational institutions carried out separately, the placement of different memorials.

One of them was on the Puente de la Concordia, where several people placed flowers, candles and launched “Huelum” Porras of the IPN and Goyas of the UNAM in memory of the affected students.

In the Faculty of Political and Social Sciences of the UNAM, students and teachers placed 20 faces of the fatal victims of the explosion, accompanied by flowers and candles as a tribute.