2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15
A trip to remember years of youth ended in tragedy for a group of eight Argentine friends who traveled to New York to celebrate 30 years of graduation.
The group was riding a bike through lower Manhattan when they were hit by a van on Tuesday that boarded a popular bike path in what authorities have called a terrorist attack.
Hernán Diego Mendoza, Diego Enrique Angelini, Alejandro Damián Pagnucco, Ariel Erlij and Hernán Ferruchi died as a result of the injuries caused by the vehicle, while Martín Ludovico Marro is hospitalized. The other members of the group miraculously avoided death.
Three other people were killed in the attack, including a Belgian tourist. The alleged perpetrator of the attack, Sayfullo Saipov, was shot by the police and is admitted to a hospital in serious condition.
"The Argentine Government expresses its sincere condolences to the relatives for the death of Argentine citizens," the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Worship of the South American country said on its Twitter account, which also reported that the wounded man remains hospitalized. New York Presbyterian of Manhattan "recovering from the injuries suffered and being out of danger, according to the official medical report."
The Argentine Foreign Ministry explained that the five men, natives of the city of Rosario, had traveled to the City of Skyscrapers as part of a trip to celebrate the 30th anniversary of their graduation from polytechnic school.
"For us today is not one more day," relatives of Erlij and workers from his company in Rosario said in a statement. “We are deeply hurt by the absence of Ariel Erlij, someone who was much more than a father and a great businessman. He was above all a great person”.
According to the Argentine press, Erlij was the organizer of the trip and thanks to his good financial situation as the owner of a steel company, he paid the expenses to some of his friends.
"They left the airport happy. Yesterday the 10 were together for the first time and they decided to ride a bicycle, but they never came,”Clarín Cecilia Piedrabuena, the wife of one of the survivors, told the Buenos Aires newspaper. “They were 10 friends from high school, they always got together. What happened is terrible."
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