“I don’t know what I’m going to do without him”: the heartbreaking testimonies of the pilgrims who were on their way to the Basilica

The victims of the fatal accident were pilgrims from Ajalpan, in Puebla. (Claudio CRUZ / AFP)

What began as a visit to the Virgin of Guadalupe in the Basilica of Guadalupe ended with a fatal fate after the overturning of a tourist truck was reported on the morning of February 5, in which dozens of pilgrims were transported. between men, women and children.

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The trip began at 01:00 this Sunday, the starting point was Ajalpan, in the state of Puebla. The pilgrims had already traveled a large part of the little more than 200 kilometers of distance; There was just over an hour left on the road when a strong impact and subsequent rollover woke up some of the passengers who had been sleeping. The balance was three people dead and more than 20 injured, six of them seriously.

According to preliminary data, the bus in which they were traveling suffered a mechanical failure that caused the loss of control of the unit. Given this, the driver entered an emergency braking ramp, however the speed was higher, the truck collided with a retaining wall and ended up overturned on its right side.

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“I heard that it was making noise (…) A lady and I said that it smelled of tires. Nobody paid attention to us until they told us to hold on, ”one of the survivors, who was traveling with her baby in the middle of the bus, told Foro TV microphones. She affirmed that her little one was unharmed thanks “to the fact that I grabbed him well”, this, after a male voice warned the passengers about the eventual accident

The fatal accident left 3 people dead and more than two dozen injured.

“I was sleeping and that one, the other friend who is pressed there, told us to hold on,” Rafael said for his part, and for the same medium, who pointed out that that “friend”, one of the three fatalities, he noticed the situation because he was riding in the front of the bus. However, he, also a native of Ajalpan, broke down in tears when he said that one of the people arrested was his father.

“My dad is pressed there on the bus. (We came) just in front (…) I don’t know what I’m going to do without him”.

To this, the young man added that his nephew and his mother were also seriously injured. In fact, two of the six were transferred by air to the Traumatology Hospital “Dr. Victorio de la Fuente Narváez” from the Mexican Social Security Institute (IMSS) – whose health condition was reported to be serious.

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