“I promised to take them to the sea and a big wave caught them and took them away”: three sisters drowned during a walk whose photo remained of them going into the water with their mother

The three young daughters of a Guatemalan family wanted to see the sea. Several times they asked their father to fulfill their wish and he promised them.

With enthusiasm they prepared the journey, which unfortunately ended fatally. Santos Sequén told Univisión’s Primer Impacto of Guatemala that he won’t be able to erase from his mind the promise to his daughters, Shirley, Jackelyn and Lesly Sequén Rodríguez, to go see the sea for the first time.

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Sisters Tragedy at Sea

The Sequéns invited some friends to join them on the journey. Santos said he stayed near the coast and watched his partner go into the sea with their three daughters.

“I was left filling a buildable pool where they loaned us the ranch. The girls came to ask me for permission to take pictures of the sea because they wanted to see it,” the grieving father told journalist Éricka Porras.

The mother took two of the girls by the hand. On the third, he took a sister. So they walked towards the encounter with the water, with the waves.

Last photo of the three sisters

The scene was immortalized in a photograph. The mother, with a white and green towel on her back, took her three daughters to fulfill the big dream.

In several reports of this tragic news, the name of the parent is not mentioned.

But in the blink of an eye, a huge wave engulfed the woman and the three sisters. The force of the water caused the wave to “drag them out to sea,” Univisión explained.

The strong waves prevented Sequén from helping his daughters. “They told us this wave is called the Sweeper; That was the one who caught my angels and carried them away.”

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Kimberly cries desperately for her three sisters

Shirley’s body was the first to return to the sea. The other two bodies were found three days later.

“A giant wave hit two big brothers, 14 and 17 years old; my 34-year-old mother, my three sisters and another lady,” said Kimberly Sequén, the eldest daughter, crying.

Kimberly couldn’t ride along. Knowing about this tragedy, she went to the beach in Iztapa. Hours passed and they failed to find a boat to find the bodies of the other two girls.

Recall First Impact that the young woman recorded a message from shore asking for help: “My relatives are scattered looking for my (2) sisters and we are desperate. Since sunrise we are looking for anyone who has a boat or ATV and can help us”.

Heeding this painful request, firefighters and marine officials conducted an extensive operation to locate the bodies of Jackelyn and Lesly Sequén.

During an initial tour, which lasted 10 hours, they failed to find the other two girls in the Pacific corridor, an official explained.

Desperate, Santos told Sequén as the hours passed: “I asked God to give me back my little angels for the Christian burial”.

“There were seven children. I accept God’s decision. He gave them to me and took them away. God will give me strength… He and my family will be the ointment to move forward, accompanied by my older children and my wife,” Santos Sequén told Telediario Guatemala before the funeral.

“We found them dead,” Kimberly said, her voice bursting with pain. When they found the other two babies, three long days had passed since that trip to the sea in early July, but now, in mid-August, the shocking story has come to light.

The news filled the friends, neighbors, teachers and classmates of the three Sequén sisters with dismay.

“My sisters couldn’t get out,” Kimberly repeats inconsolably to Univisión. He regrets that, being in the capital, he could not go with the family.

He thinks that if he had traveled “I would have gone to heaven with them”.

(JO)

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