Early on Tuesday, March 26, the daily lives of the citizens of Baltimore, United States, changed completely when a cargo ship collided with the Francis Scott Key Bridge, causing it to collapse into the Patapsco River.
This accident left 6 fatalities, including two Guatemalans, two Mexicans, a Salvadoran and a Honduran, of which only two bodies have been located.
However, there have been several survivors who have narrated how they managed to save themselves.
This is the case of Moisés Díaz, who managed not to be at the scene thanks to his shift change at work.
Díaz also narrated the experience of his friend, Julio Cervantes, a Mexican migrant who survived the tragedy.
“He says he felt a little tremor… and suddenly they collapsed,” Díaz commented on the experience narrated by Cervantes, who indicates that he has trouble speaking due to a chest injury he suffered in the accident.
According to traffic camera images that were released by Maryland authorities, Cervantes was probably in the truck at the time the boat collapsed against the bridge.
“He says that he fell, and his vehicle was slowly sinking, but he opened the glass of his door as best he could and got out through the bed of the truck, from the back. But as he saw that the truck was sinking, he says that at the same time seeing the turbulence of the water, he jumped in; he doesn’t know how to swim,” Díaz commented on the story his friend told him.
Cervantes also told him that he reached a concrete base, where he began to scream and cry for approximately 10 to 15 minutes until they came to rescue them.
With Cervantes were Alejandro and Carlos Hernández, the other two Mexican migrants who did not suffer the same fate as him.
The body of Alejandro Hernández Fuentes, 35, was found along with that of Guatemalan Dorlian Ronial Castillo Cabrera, however the search is still continuing to locate the rest of the bodies.
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