Brothers Embraced Earthquake Mexico

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

Of all the poignant stories the 7.1-magnitude earthquake has left in Mexico, few have drawn as much attention as the deaths of two little brothers who were found hugging each other under the rubble of their home in the Mexican capital.

Jimena Lora, 6, and Julián Andrés Astudillo Flores, 11, died buried in a building located on Avenida Tlalpan, south of Mexico City. According to Univision, the children had asked their mother to allow them to stay home that day "to sleep another time" and not go to school.

Ironically, the building was completely collapsed after the earthquake, while the school they attended was intact.

"A little neighbor told me shouting: 'Mama, Mama here I am, bring us out, get us out, '" he told Univision's mother minors, Nalleli Flores. The woman was a single mother and the children were the result of her relationship with Julio Andrés Astudillo, originally from Cali, Colombia, who according to 90minutos.co had been living in Mexico for 20 years.

The children's bodies were removed from the rubble the day after the Sept. 19 earthquake, but rescuers led him to believe they were alive, according to the woman. "A young lady comes out and says 'don't worry, they are stabilizing you,'" she said. But in reality, added the mother, the children had died.

“My son and daughter were in the Colonia Tasqueña building in Mexico City. They lived on a second floor and three floors above fell on them. They tell me that the rescue lasted more than twenty hours, but unfortunately they both died, said the father of the children 90 minutes away. The man indicated that the mother of the little ones was saved because he was working.

"I got a call and they tell me that the children were trapped, that they were alive until six o'clock in the afternoon, then they never heard them again," Astudillo explained to the aforementioned site. "My son had a whistle, he liked football a lot and he always bothered with the whistle, so he whistled, whistled, whistled, but they heard them screaming, but at six or seven at night they never heard them again plus".

According to Univision, the children were buried last Friday. In the multi-family complex where the children died, at least 20 more people lost their lives.