It was 12.44 at noon when, after the applause hole that has closed the minute of silence, neighbors and friends have begun to enter The improvised burning chapel which has been installed in the Leon municipality of Villablino, where there were four of the five deceased. Until that time, the silence of the hundred people waiting on the street could barely hide the pain and rage contained in the environment.
“I don’t know how something like this has happened now, as if it were a few years ago,” one of the neighbors wonders rhetorically. “Accidents in the mine have always been,” replies his resigned partner. The disbelief of what happened is the only topic of conversation that manages to break a silence that, so respected, could be uncomfortable for a oblivious to the tragedy.
The last goodbye
In a slow drip, relatives reach the sports center. The scarves in hand, crying and their heavy walk, as if wanting to avoid reaching that last goodbye, makes them easily recognizable. Yesterday, they were brought brieflyearly in the morning. A daily greeting to whom I return to work on a Monday morning. No one could know that it would be, rather than see you later, the last goodbye.
An older woman walks slowly, supported an arm in whom she seems to be her son and the other in a civil protection volunteer. The authorities expect in a long line, also in silence. Some relatives come to thank. Others prefer to go directly inside the sports center. The old woman, to which the pain forces him to go almost in volars supported by her companions, stop her at various times to try to comfort her with a long hug. Little by little it advances towards the burning chapel, to wait for the arrival of the bodies.
An improvised burning chapel in a sports center
Amid the expectation of an entire region, the four funeral cars have reached the sports center shortly before half past eleven in the morning. Until that time, employees of the City Council and the funeral home They have conditioned the sports center to host the bodies of the four deceased neighbors. On the basketball track, crowns of flowers next to the place occupied by each of the coffins and retractable chairs so that family members can accompany their loved ones in this last trance.
Outside the sports center, a Civil Protection and Red Cross tent marks the place where they have been installed Several voluntary psychologists available to serve victims and family if necessary.
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