“Mommy, I love her, we are going to die.”

10/01/2023 at 1:40 p.m.

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The woman’s father, 28, points out that he had gone to the premises with his partner and some friends.

Jairo, the father of a 28-year-old girl who disappeared in the fire at the Atalayas nightclubs in Murcia, points out that his daughter had gone to one of these nightclubs with her boyfriend and some friends from Caravaca de la Cruz. At the moment, he indicates, the authorities have not shared any information with the relatives. This father, destroyed by nerves, has shared with the media present a audio that his daughter sent via WhatsApp to her mother. In the audio, sent at 6:06 in the morning, the voice of a young woman can be heard saying: “Mommy, I love her, we are going to die,” with a broken voice, while screams are heard around him. She claims that after receiving that message the cell phone turned off. It is not yet confirmed if the young woman is one of the victims located by firefighters.

At the moment the balance of the tragedy reaches the 11 people killed. Four others have been poisoned by smoke inhalation in the fire at the Fonda MIlagro nightclub in Murcia (which spread to the Teatre room, and affected the Golden room, adjacent clubs in the same warehouse), declared around 6 in the morning this Sunday, reports 112, while the National Police, incorporated into the investigation, does not rule out the discovery of more bodies.

The intoxicated people are two women, aged 22 and 25, and two men, aged 41 and 45, two of whom have been taken in ambulances to the local Reina Sofía hospital and the other two have gone to a health center on their own, according to statements to the regional public radio station Onda Regional de Murcia from one of the doctors who has worked caring for the injured since early in the morning. He has also indicated that three other people had also gone on their own to the same hospital and five more to Morales Meseguer, also in the urban area of ​​the city.

Surroundings of the Teatre de Murcia nightclub after firefighters put out the flames.

| JUAN CARLOS CAVAL

Once the flames were put out, the lifeless bodies of nine people have been found so far in the inspection of the premises, the majority belonging to a group of friends who were celebrating a birthday at the local Fonda Milagro, whose roof has collapsed, as can be seen in videos circulating on social networks on the Internet recorded at the time of the events, before dawn.

There are also images recorded by witnesses to the fire after leaving that premises and other adjacent nightclubs, as there are several in the streets of this popular area of ​​cocktail bars in the Murcian capital.

An information area has been established for relatives of the victims in the nearby sports palace, where a team of psychologists cares for them.

Sources from the National Police do not rule out the discovery of more deceased people at the scene, where specialized fire investigation units have been deployed to determine their origin, as well as members of the homicide group of the higher headquarters.

Firefighters from the Murcia City Council and the Fire Extinction and Rescue Consortium of the Region of Murcia have worked to extinguish the flames, which has forced traffic to be cut off on the old Alicante road and at the entrances to the commercial area. and leisure of Las Atalayas.

The request for a firefighting helicopter from the General Directorate of Citizen Security and Emergencies has been canceled as there are sufficient ground resources to put out the fire in the area, where ambulances and police units remain.

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