Honduran drowned to save his mother from a flood in the United States

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MARYLAND, UNITED STATES.- A young Honduran man died Thursday while trying to save his mother from a flood that occurred in the building where they lived in Rockville Maryland, United States.

It was identified as Melkin Daniel Cedillo (19) and died when he was pulling his mother out of the apartment complex that was being flooded by the constant rains that have affected the state.

“I never imagined my son was drowning here,” the victim’s mother said anxiously. “My God, this pain is very big for me. This pain has no comparison with anything,” he explained on television. Telemundo.

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“We wanted to go out the window but he couldn’t and we tried to go out the other way and he said to me, ‘Mom, you can’t, you can’t swim,’ he went for a stick to help me and me. I told him no, but he told me, ‘I’m coming.’ He left and didn’t come back. My heart is shattered, “Cedillo’s mother said.

The Honduran’s body was found when the water level dropped.

Two more people are missing, all residents of the housing complex where the catracho and mother lived. Three are injured and more than 150 were left homeless.

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“We were scared because it was a very strange noise we heard and when I stopped, I already had water in my waist,” said José Armando Sánchez, one of the tenants. ” ‘What is happening?’ I say and the mattress was already floating on my back, “he added.

Savallà had been working for a few months in a restaurant in the area. He migrated from Honduras to the United States and resided there with relatives for some years.

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