Almost a month after the shipwreck around Cayo Cruz del Padre, in the province of Matanzas, there are three unidentified bodies in the Legal Medicine facilities. This was reported in your Facebook account Yaylin Mesa Vázquez, one of the survivors of the incident that occurred on January 23, who was summoned because “the body of a woman appeared” that could be that of her sister Yamily Triana Vázquez.
Mesa wrote last Tuesday on her social networks that she was able to “confirm” that among the clothes she was shown “there are my sister’s belongings.” The young woman said that the garments were found “near a body (skeleton) floating”, something that “nobody explains, but that’s how it was”.
The 27-year-old survivor specified that with the remains found “it may be a coincidence that it is her (Yamily) but it is not yet fully confirmed.” She explained that this must take a process to “be certain” that she is her blood relative. “They have to compare everything and then it will be known if she is my sister or not.”
Yaylin has doubts that “the bones floating in the water” they found are those of her sister.
“They have to compare everything and then it will be known if she is my sister or not”
Yaylin Mesa spent around 24 hours adrift until a fishing boat carrying foreign tourists rescued her, dehydrated and with burned skin. Her sister, who is still missing until now, left behind an 11-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl. The family, she learned 14ymediohas been a victim of the siege and repression after the demonstrations on July 11, 2021. Yarelys, another of the survivor’s sisters, was arrested for black berets for participating in the protests and sentenced to seven years in prison.
The figure released by the official media was 28 shipwrecked, less than the 31 initially claimed by the relatives of the victims who were on the boat on January 23. According to the Cuban authorities, 11 people survived and 12 are missing.
Mesa stressed: “So far, to clarify all doubts, there are 11 survivors, 8 bodies already fully identified” and another 9 are missing.
On the last day of January, the young Nayelis Rodríguez, 19, Kevin Medina, Tito González and Yoan Karel Almaguer Tamayo They were identified on social networks by their relatives.
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