What was going to be a party to celebrate Eric’s 30th birthday ended in tragedy. This Nicaraguan, along with twenty family members and friends, had dinner at the La Fonda Milagros restaurant Murcia. After dinner and the celebration, nine of them left later to continue the party at the nightclub.
Among the deceased are also both Eric’s mother and his brother Sergio.
Alan Antonio, one of Eric’s cousins attending the birthday party, was called early in the morning when the tragedy occurred inside the nightclub. ““When I arrived, the fire already covered the entire roof and façade of the nightclub.”, account. The Nicaraguan family had been in Murcia for more than fifteen years. Eric worked as a Coca Cola delivery boy. “They say he was full. The people who were below managed to get out, those who were above did not.“says Alan Antonio. Tania, John or Orfilia are some of the names of those who were trapped.
“We never expected this tragedy to happen,” says Walter, another of the relatives who managed to escape after the fire. “I went down to the bar to order a drink without knowing that my friends and family were going to be trapped and they were not going to be able to leave,” he adds. Upon arrival at the Sports Palace, where a team of Civil Protection and psychologists are assisting the victims’ families, he says: “What I want is for them to confirm once and for all the information, receive the blow and know if they are my family or not. “I already know that what happened is a tragedy.”
Jofre Herrera, a witness to what happened, a friend of the 7 missing people, confirms that “It was at the Fonda, they were at the topcelebrating a birthday, it was a large group of about twenty people (the majority were Nicaraguans and Ecuadorians), but the majority left at that time, they had already gone home around five in the morning,” he indicates.
Cries, hugs, phone calls and a silence that moves the soul… It is the image that is repeated with the passing of the minutes in the vicinity of the Sports Palace. Many of the despondent relatives have been treated by members of the National Police, Civil Protection and psychologists before having more information about the terrible event.
The Teatre spokesperson assures that the spread is “very rapid”
The spokesperson for the Teatre nightclub, María Dolores Abellán, has clarified that around 6 in the morning she received an emergency call alerting that a fire had broken out in the premises next door, in a room called Fonda Milagros, where the event was taking place. a birthday. From The emergency services asked him to vacate the nightclub as soon as possible. After the eviction, according to the spokesperson, no victims have been recorded inside the Teatre nightclub, contrary to what was initially reported by several official sources.
“The fire originated in the upper part of Fonda Milagros, the store next to the Mercedes dealership in Atalayas; As it is a nave, it has spread to the other two adjoining rooms that this space has: Golden and Teatre”, indicates the spokesperson for the latter room, who adds that the spread of the flames was “very rapid; although in Teatre we have had time to evacuate everyone, just as happened in Golden, the other room.” Abellán maintains that nearly 500 people were in his room at that time.
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Regarding the fatalities, the Teatre spokesperson assures that they have all occurred at Fonda Milagros, where the birthday was celebrated.
Finally, he thanked the security forces, firefighters and medical personnel for their quick action and offered his condolences to friends and family.