The Nuestra Señora del Rosario Parish of the Diocese of Estelí will celebrate a mass this Thursday, July 28, at 5:30 pm, for the eternal rest of the 13 Venezuelan migrants and a Nicaraguan who died on Wednesday night, July 27, in a traffic accident on the slope of La Cucamonga, at kilometer 170 on the North Pan-American Highway, in the department of Estelí. 47 victims were injured.
In addition, they organized a collection for the survivors of the accident and the injured left by the fateful accident. The Police of the regime of Daniel Ortega and Rosario Murillo concluded that the driver of the bus that covers the Managua-Jalapa route was traveling at excessive speed on this stretch of road considered dangerous.
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“Today our migrant brothers need your solidarity. Take your financial contribution to our parish to cover some of the needs they are experiencing,” Father Osman Amador Guillén reported on his Facebook account.
Of the 16 people who died in the accident, 13 are of Venezuelan origin who were in transit through Nicaragua on their way to the United States, one of the victims is Nicaraguan and two people have not been identified, according to the Police of the dictatorship.
«The traffic accident investigators and Criminalistics experts found that Alfredo Antonio Palma, 46, was driving the bus license plate M 221075 from south to north, at excessive speed, collided with a car license plate ES 034, driven by Oscar Danilo Matute Pineda , 37 years old and car license plate M 265180 driven by Milagros Carolina Carrasco Aráuz, 29 years old, as a result of the collision and excessive speed, the bus driver Alfredo Antonio Palma, lost control and fell off the cliff, “explained the Police in press release No. 075-2022.
Rosario Murillo sends condolences to the families of the victims
In her midday litany, the Vice President of Nicaragua, Rosario Murillo, sent condolences from the Presidency to the families of the fatalities and pointed out that the driver of the intercity bus was speeding “irresponsibly” violating traffic signs.
“Our condolences to the families who suffer the absence of loved ones as a result of that tragic accident that occurred last night on the slope, that slope that is also tragic, in La Cucamonga. The bus driven by a person who, unfortunately, was driving irresponsibly, even ignored traffic signals in a place as delicate, as dangerous as that,” said the regime’s spokeswoman.
“He was going at high speed and crashed into vehicles, against the protection signs that are there to contain any tragedy, such as a vehicle sliding into the abyss. At a very high speed it collided, the bus went, as we know, to the bottom of the abyss », he added.
Murillo explained that the Venezuelan regime will be communicating with the families of the deceased to find out the decision they will make about the deceased. The bodies could be repatriated and meanwhile they are in the morgue of the Institute of Legal Medicine (IML) in Managua.
The victims were identified as:
- Judith Maritza Cáceres Contreras, 45 years old, Venezuelan.
- Franyel José Pérez Urroa, 44, Venezuelan.
- Alexis Rodolfo Hurdaneta, 43, Venezuelan.
- Arístides Brillembourg Arámbulo, 39, Venezuelan.
- Jackson Jahir Somoza 38-year-old boy, Venezuelan.
- Joselyn Mariajosé Martel Bermúdez, 38, Venezuelan.
- Dalia Elena Soler Cortez, 37, Venezuelan.
- Neomar Sulem Márquez Flores, 36, Venezuelan.
- Antony Enrique Romero Romero, 31, Venezuelan.
- Eyner Edgardo Rodríguez Molina, 30, Venezuelan.
- Jordán José Castellano Castillo, 29, Venezuelan.
- Cinthia Ninoska Was Rojas, 26 years old, Venezuelan.
- Juleana Beatriz Quiñónez Martel, 20 years old, Venezuelan.
- Lorenzo Alberto Mejía Leiva, 42 years old, Nicaraguan.
