On Saturday, January 29, 2022, Wilmer Moreira said goodbye to Anghelo, his eldest son, who was traveling to Argentina to study medicine. The departure changed the atmosphere of the home, which immediately sank into melancholy.
Two days later, on Monday the 31st, after closing his local cleaning materials, decided to go to the ecuavoley court that was two blocks from his business, in the Commune.
But in a matter of minutes, a barrage carried Wilmer for a kilometer, until leaving him buried in the rubble, next to the Community Police Unit (UPC) of The Gaska.
Irma Tacuri, his wife, he returns to the field ten days later and lights a candle. With some stones that were left over from the cleaning of rubble, he makes a kind of cave, so that the wind does not extinguish the flame.
What was a sports complex looks like a piece of land where a bulldozer passed. It has small lakes of water, it is fenced by yellow danger tapes and under the protection of the military. Not even the three-level grandstand is there, which was the only thing that remained standing after the flood. Everything was removed from the place.
The woman remembers minutes before the tragedy, her husband sent her a message confirming that he made the first monthly payment of $160 to the residence where his son would stay in Argentina. “We made him a video call my son and he was very happy, eager to start his career and carry forward the name and efforts of his parents”.
Irma is accompanied by her son Anghelo, who alone could be in Argentina four days. Wilmer went to that place on Fridays and Saturdays without fail.
the day of the tragedy
On Monday afternoon, Irma points out, she had left the premises earlier and went home to see her youngest son, 10 years old. In that, one of the boys who works with her called her to inform her that a disaster occurred in the neighborhood and they couldn’t find her husband.
She ran out of her house in despair. tried looking for Wilmer, no luck. “That night there was only one fire truck downstairs, at the 9 de Octubre school. I managed to enter (the field), but it was very difficult to find him, it was very dark; we needed light to find bodies or victims who could be saved, but there were none”.
The next day, at 05:00, he was already back there with boots and a broomstick to help in the search. Shortly after, the body of her husband was found by rescuers next to the Police UPC, under a vehicle and several meters into the mud.
Your son, who found out everything in Argentina, he returned to the country on Thursday morning, February 3. At noon he went to his father’s funeral in the Jardines del Valle Colibrí cemetery.
The plans of the family definitely changed. After the death of Wilmer, who was head of householdhis eldest son had to stay in the country and leave behind the dream of studying medicine.
The young man plans to study business administration in Quito, although he still doesn’t know how he’ll pay for college. He is just beginning to mourn and assimilating new responsibilities. Until, help in what you can in the business and to his mother. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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