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The incident was recorded around 7:00 p.m. on the last Wednesday, July 27, inside the house located on Avenida 28 de Julio s/n, Unión neighborhood, in Sicaya. The young mother, Dora Mendoza (25), wanted to turn on the kitchen to prepare dinner, but she did not notice the gas leak that filled the room with fuel.
The deflagration generated a strong movement, blowing up the roof of the house made of rustic material, as well as burning everything inside the house, including furniture and clothing. The mother and the children, YRM(5) and JRM(3), were locked up with their clothes on fire.
“It was a neighbor who broke the door and managed to get everyone out. The children were screaming because I was burning their clothes, the only thing we could do was cut everything off with scissors, because it had stuck to the body,” said Maruja Poma.
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The father of the children is Brider Romo Páucar (28), a musician by trade. At the time of the fire he was playing in a Santiago, but upon learning of the fact he returned to his home finding everything burned and his relatives in the El Carmen (children) and Daniel Alcides Carrión hospitals.
The young man mentioned that they kept 15 thousand soles from the sale of 4 bulls that they gave him in his town (Vilca, Huancavelica) and that he lost everything. He now does not know how to afford the recovery of his family.
They all have third-degree burns, but it will be the 5-year-old girl who will be taken to Lima for reconstructive surgery. “The children are responding well. The minor will be sent today (yesterday) for surgery in Lima. She rules out amputating her hands, ”said the director of the El Carmen hospital, Luis Orihuela.
