The Colombian who sent the moving audio before dying in a nightclub fire in Murcia

The family of a Colombian woman mourns her tragic death inside a nightclub in Murcia, Spain. The young woman, in the middle of a fire, reached send an audio to your mother with a sad farewell: “Mommy, I love you, we are going to die.”

The emergency occurred in a popular area of ​​the Spanish city Murcia, in the early hours of Sunday, October 1st. According to authorities, 13 people were burned to death – including Colombians, Nicaraguans and Ecuadorians – and 24 were injured.

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The fire spread to a series of adjacent nightclubs, where Fonda Milagros, owned by some Colombians, was located.

“You can clearly see it was the last seconds he had to live.”

Colombian Leidy Paola Correa, 27, lived in the Spanish city of Caravaca de la Cruz. Together with her boyfriend, Kevin Alejandro Gómez, and other friends, they decided to go to Murciaan hour’s drive away.

They arrived at Fonda Milagros and, after hours of conversation, they were caught by the voracious fire. She contacted her parents and left them the devastating Audioamidst screams.

In this photograph provided by the Murcia Fire Department on October 1, 2023, an attempt is made to extinguish a fire in a nightclub area. (AFP). (FLYER/)

“At 6:06 am, your mother received the message from Whatsapp, in which he told her this and said goodbye. “You can clearly see it was the last seconds he had to live,” commented Jairo, his father, to the local channel Antenna 3.

The young woman’s parents immediately sought to find out what was happening and learned that the establishments were on fire.

Leidy’s father questioned the site’s security measures: “That wasn’t supposed to happen. A leisure center is supposed to be a place where people go to feel safe and not seek death. People must ensure safety, no matter what club it is.”

A firefighter passes by the Teatro nightclub while at least thirteen people die in a fire, in Murcia, on October 1, 2023. (Photo from Brochure / Emergency Services 112 Region of Murcia / AFP) (DISCLAIMER/)

The Colombian demands that the authorities thoroughly investigate the emergency and find those responsible. Now, he awaits the identification of the young people’s remains.

“We know and accept that our daughter and her partner have died. We are assuming this”He said, visibly affected.

The fire is the deadliest recorded in a leisure venue in Spain, after the 1990 tragedy at a nightclub in Zaragoza, where 43 people died.

The reason for the fire is being investigated; One of the hypotheses is that a short circuit would have been the trigger.

Authorities reported that The Fonda Milagros and Teatre nightclubs did not have a municipal license and were subject to a closure order from January 2022. this was never fulfilled.

The Spanish National Police confirmed the death of eleven people this Sunday in the fire at the Fonda Milagros entertainment venue, in Murcia, which spread to the Teatre and Golden nightclubs, frequented by the Latino community. (EFE/ Marcial Guillén). (Martial Guillén/)

Despite having different names, as those responsible for urban planning explained, administratively the two clubs were a single space, Teatro SL

When they wanted to split into two, they demanded that the business owners have a new license different from the one they had presented in 2008. Despite this, and although the City Council ordered the closure in January 2022 and sent an inspection months later, according to their representatives, Fonda Milagros remained open to the public.

“Neither the owner of the premises nor the authorities told us anything. And what’s more: it is assumed that the closure order was in January or February of last year, and in July the City Council asked us to carry out some reforms, so there is no logic in saying that the suspension was ordered”, replied Juan Esteban Ramírez, owner of Fonda Milagros, in dialogue with EL TIEMPO.

Source: Elcomercio