Manzanillo, Colima.- The second fatality of earthquake occurred on the afternoon of this Monday, September 19, was confirmed by the State System of Civil protection of Colima through their social networks, this in a Gym where the roof collapsed the municipality of Manzanillo.
Already around 5:30 in the afternoon, the governor of Colima, Indira Vizcaino Silva, reported the death of a person due to the detachment of a marquee and a wall in a shopping center, and the possibility of a person being caught in the rubble of the aforementioned gym.
“Unfortunately in the count that we have so far we know that there is the loss of a human life in Manzanillo, a person who died as a consequence of the detachment of a canopy and a fence in a commercial establishment,” he explained.
For this reason, personnel from Manzanillo Civil Protection, State Civil Protection and Manzanillo Firefighters were focused on locating this person who they were informed had been left under the ruins.
“They are doing search work and rescue at this time civil protection personnel from the state and civil protection and firefighters from Manzanillo in this gym of which countless images have circulated and the possibility that there is a trapped person“, he commented.
And although in social networks the version that a man had been rescued alive from the rubble of the physical exercise center, Civil Protection denied this information around 9:45 at night through a tweet.
“#AlMomento is FALSE information on the rescue of a person alive in the Plaza Punto Bahía in Manzanillo. The personnel of the State and Municipal PC, Navy and volunteer groups are working in the area, with an advance of 60% still without having contact with him. Do not listen to rumors and check the information on official pages“, public.
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Minutes later he reported the location of a person among the ruins of the gym, but unfortunately lifelessso they worked on the extraction of the body.
“#AlMomento confirms that the person who was trapped in Plaza Punto Bahía, unfortunately was found dead. At this time the staff is carrying out work to recover the victim“, he reported.
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