Jairo, the father of one of the missing women after the fire in a leisure area in Murcia that has left thirteen dead so far, has revealed that his daughter sent an audio to the family after 6 in the morning. In it, the 28-year-old girl says goodbye to her mother: “Mommy, I love her, we are going to die.”
“He sent us an audio. It was enough for him to say goodbye,” said Jairo, very nervous, before the media. In the recording you can hear screams and people asking for the place to be lit so they can see. After sending the audio, the phone turned off and did not give a signal again. This woman, from Caravaca de la Cruz (Murcia), had gone to Murcia capital with several friends to party “They had come because in Caravaca there are no nightclubs; they came at dawn. It was the second time they came,” commented Jairo .
“Everyone was trapped,” said Inés, on the verge of tears, a woman who attended a birthday dinner, but who later did not go to the Atalayas area where the tragedy occurred. Since the fire she has not heard from three relatives and a friend of hers, whom she also considers “a sister” to her.
Last night was the first time that Biel, a 17-year-old young man from Almería, went to the Atalayas area to enjoy a night of drinks with his friends. He arrived at the Sala Teatre at 2:30 in the morning, where there were “mostly Spaniards between 30 and 60 years old.” Luckily for them, Biel and his friends left the premises about five minutes before the alarms went off. “We got in the car and started to see the fire, which turned out to be from Teatre,” the young man from Vera tells EL MUNDO. “You could hear a lot of screams, but you couldn’t see the people in the smoke.”
Alan Antonio Antía has told ‘La Verdad’ that the fire could have originated in the ‘Fonda Milagros’ establishment, right next to the ‘Teatre’ nightclub, where he had attended his cousin Eric’s birthday before going to sleep. “They called me on my cell phone at 5:30 in the morning. I took my scooter and when I arrived at the Atalayas area I found that the Fonda store was on fire. The roof was on fire and some people who were on the ground floor managed to get out. “People commented that there were a lot of people inside. It was very distressing,” he explained.
“Of the twenty people in my group who were inside, nine did not come out. This is agony. I don’t know why they tell us that the bodies are in the Teatre nightclub, because when I arrived Teatre was closed. We just want to know what happened. past and let it be what God wanted”, he concluded.
A witness to the fire, Jofre Herrera, has confirmed in ‘La Opinión de Murcia’ that the fire “was in the Fonda.” “They were at the top, celebrating a birthday, it was a large group of about twenty people (most were Nicaraguans and Ecuadorians), but most of them left at that time, they had already gone home around five in the morning. tomorrow,” he explained.
“I went down to the bar to order a drink without knowing that my friends and family were going to be trapped and not be able to get out,” Walter, another of those attending the celebration, told this same medium.
The Murcia fire is the deadliest recorded in Spain in a party area since the tragedy in 1990 at the ‘Flying’ nightclub in Zaragoza, where 43 people died.
The biggest tragedy in a nightclub in Spain took place in Madrid on December 17, 1983, when a fire that started behind the stage curtains of the ‘Alcalá 20’ nightclub killed 81 people, most of them young people.
