The recording of a call to 911 revealed, in a terrifying way, the last moments of anguish of the Colombian Claudia Marcela Pineda.
The woman was trying to cross the border of the United States along with his two children, ages three and eleven, last Friday, August 27th. Unfortunately, neither she nor her daughter survived.
(Read also: Tragedy: Colombian and her daughter die crossing the US border.)
“Please help me“Pineda told the 911 officer.” How many people are with you? “.” Two children. Please help me faint, “the recording revealed by Telemundo can be heard. In the background is the voice of Maria José, her eleven-year-old daughter, who tells her mother that He is hungry.
Following this, the officer asks him if he has How are you, The woman answers yes and on the other side of the phone they say, “I just sent her a message.” At that time the call was cut off and there was no further communication because, apparently, Pineda ran out of signal and ran out of battery of his cell phone, which was at 3 percent.
He was looking for a better future for his children and did not succeed
Soon, the border patrol found the woman and her lifeless daughter. The three-year-old, who was next to the inert bodies, was rescued and taken to a hospital in Arizona.
Guadalupe Lares Núñez, state coordinator of Sonora’s Center for Control, Command, Communication, Computing, Coordination, and Intelligence (C5i), told local media that the victims died in the intense desert sun of Yuma, in Arizona.
In addition, preliminary inquiries indicate that Pineda and his children were abandoned by people they hired to cross the U.S. border.
(Also: Woman discharged by covid returns home and finds her husband dead)
Colombian Claudia Marcela Pineda, who died in the Arizona desert.
In her plans she was to meet her husband, who resides in the American country. The man is asking the Colombian authorities to help him repatriate the body of his wife and daughter, he said in an interview with Telemundo.
“He was looking for a better future for his children and did not succeed“He said.
He also explained that he is not with his surviving son and that he is doing his best to get him delivered.
By August 2020, nearly a thousand immigrants had to be rescued by border guards, who found them weak, injured or in complicated health conditions due to fatigue from long walks and intense heat waves.
Unfortunately, many people fail to be rescued and die along the way. In 2019, for example, U.S. authorities found 153 lifeless bodies.
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