Early this Monday, November 4, citizen Wagner Mijail Ruiz Palacios, 35, died after spending almost a week in an induced coma at the Alejandro Dávila Bolaños Military Hospital, in Managua, where he was admitted after being seriously injured. on October 29, in a multiple collision caused by a bus without brakes at kilometer 18.7 of the Ticuantepe-La Concepción highway.
Ruiz Palacios is the third fatality caused by the accident caused by the car that had mechanical failures and hit three motorcycles, a truck, a sedan-type vehicle and a motorcycle taxi, when he was heading towards Villa Libertad, Managua, with a group of 70 passengers from the Doctrina Viva de Jesucriesto church in Masatepe, Masaya.
Ruiz Palacios was one of the passengers of the red Hyundai vehicle, license plate CZ-20393, the last vehicle that was hit by the bus without brakes. The citizen of Caracas origin leaves two minors orphaned.
The other two fatal victims of that accident were identified as María Montserrat López Marenco, 32 years old, also a passenger in the Hyundai brand vehicle; and sub-inspector Carlos Martín Salmerón Fonseca, 39 years old, who was traveling on the Génesis brand motorcycle, blue, plates CZ-16535. Both died at the scene of the accident and were also from the department of Carazo.
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Other people who were injured in that accident were identified, according to official media, as: Liseth del Carmen Cardenal Cerna, 43 years old; Francisco Javier López, 35 years old; Carlos Hernández, 39 years old; Jorly Angela Espinoza, 37 years old; Hendrick García Palacios 39 years old; and Guillermo Montiel, 43 years old.
Although the number of victims left by the multiple collision continues to increase and at least eight other people who were seriously injured are still hospitalized, the Nicaraguan authorities have not yet clarified the charges for which the cooperative and the driver of the car, whom they identified as Geovanny Antonio Blandón García, 48, will be charged.
Victims worked in the same company
Wagner Mijail Ruiz Palacios, a graphic designer by profession, worked—like María Montserrat López Marenco (RIP)—at the company Elite Online Media Nicaragua, located in Managua.
Both citizens were traveling to work when the car in which they were traveling was hit by the bus without brakes, which crashed them into a pole and a wall of a mechanics workshop in Ticuantepe, where it finally stopped, after running over five others. vehicles.
The company Elite Online Media Nicaragua, through social networks, regretted the death of its second collaborator and said it joined “the great pain that invades his family and friends.”
