Watching over the dead with an umbrella in the funeral home: "One of the bodies was changing color"

Refugees

.

, a town south of the capital, had to watch over their deceased

last week after this municipal building

due to the rains.

"Despite having assumed the death of their relative, everything

If the situation is already unpleasant, the water flooded everything and even caused power blackouts that affected the cameras where the bodies are found .

...

, "a neighbor who knows the ordeal that both families had to go through tells this newspaper.

First, this resident details, "they reassured them by telling them that the bodies were refrigerated," but some relatives began to notice that "one of the bodies

."

Finally, "it was decided to place both in the emergency room."

After this experience, some affected people began to upload videos to their networks that

Flooded corridors, buckets overflowing with water every few meters... "

, literally, inside the wake," Ana María Romero, spokesperson for the PP of San Martín de la Vega, explains to this newspaper, who, she admits, was worried from the start. minute one for the affected families.

"I spoke with the daughter of one of the deceased. She told me that her concern now was to know if her father was well preserved... That she hoped

possible ", she slips her to this diary.

The City Council regrets "what happened"

Romero, "judging by what he has experienced," does not understand "

if the works were not yet finished."

And he reels that "the families were given the opportunity to transfer the bodies to other wakes."

One of them agreed, he says, but the other did not: "They were told that they would put a bus for them, but

. In addition, they offered to take him to the San Isidro funeral home, in the capital... The distance was unaffordable".

From the City Council of this town they tell this newspaper that since September 5 some

storm

and that caused leaks inside on numerous occasions.

"In anticipation of last week's rains, the contractor company installed a cover on the roof to avoid any type of incident. However,

from the anchors, causing water to leak into the facilities with the consequent problems for the people who were using it", they write down.

And they add: "If we had had the slightest certainty that this risk was being run, the funeral home would have remained closed from the first moment. From the City Council we are very sorry for what happened and we

who were in that moment making use of the facilities. They were going through very difficult and delicate moments, which were disturbed by all these inconveniences".

The facilities are currently closed until the completion of the works.

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