Maryland, United States.
a 19-year-old Honduran is one of the victims of the storm and flooding in the United States during the Last Days. The deceased died trying to save his mother, according to the story of his mother, in the building where they lived.
It happened to Rockville, Maryland, When, during the early hours of this Wednesday, Melkin Daniel Cedillo drowned trying to get his mother out of the building, an apartment complex.
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“I never imagined my son drowned here,” the victim’s mother said. “My God, this pain is very great to me. This pain has no comparison with anything“, His mother explained in tears on the television channel Telemundo.
“We wanted to go out the window but he couldn’t and we tried to go out the other way and he tells me mom isn’t going to be able to you don’t know how to swim, he went for a stick to help me and I told him that no but he told me I’m coming, he left and he didn’t come back, my heart is shattered “, said the mother of the young dead man.
Fallen trees, floods, gusts and raging winds have caused extensive damage in various areas of the United States due to the timely activity of Hurricane Ida.
The young Honduran was working in a restaurant in the area. He migrated from Honduras to the United States and resided there with relatives.
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The Honduran’s body was found when the water level dropped.
Two more people are missing from the residents of the housing complex. Three are injured and more than 150 were left homeless.
“We were scared because it was a very strange noise we heard and when I stopped, I already had water in my waist,” José Armando Sánchez, one of the tenants, told Telemundo. “What’s going on? I say and the mattress was already floating on my back,” he extended.
Residents were trapped when the rain hit their homes. In the middle of the morning, about 3:00 am, the water had seeped into several pieces of housing.
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Rockville firefighters described several basement-level apartments being denied.
“What woke us up was the noise from the big glass window. There was a loud noise,” said Rosa Walters, one of those affected. “When we woke up, the water was already inside and I woke up my father, my daughter too, and the water went up and up until we got to the ceiling. We just have a little bit to breathe like that,” he said. zoom in.
WITH INFORMATION FROM Telemundo