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Two more bodies found puts the total to 54 dead from the Samana shipwreck
posted on: Feb 11 2012 8:4 by The Reporter. Viewed 313 times.
Yesterday, cries and groans were less than the previous days when corpses floated in the waters of the Bay of Samana, where seven days ago today a boat capsized with more than 70 undocumented persons, leaving 54 dead, 13 survivors and still several missing.
On Acapulco Beach were less people to identify the bodies; the same number of people did not return en masse to the shore side as had done days earlier. Only three families were left visibly glum and sad because they had not seen their relatives who boarded the boat that capsized, "either dead or alive".
The salt water yesterday expelled two more bodies which were recovered by workers, but not as many people attended as were there last Wednesday when they recovered 22 bodies, where despite the stench, people remained in place, trying to identify relatives.
For medical authorities, relief agencies, and the Navy, this is the shipwreck that has led to more deaths in the history of illegal travel in the country. The last discovery came yesterday at 5:40pm in the afternoon, while members of the Navy and local fishermen continue the search for other missing persons. Some 11 bodies were buried in individual graves and coffins last night.
Of those who were buried in the "Cristo Redentor" cemetery in Sabana de la Mar, they have only identified Luis Vargas Mars, aged 45, from San Francisco de Macorís; Miguel Padua Reyes, 26 years old, a native of La Romana; and Pedro de Jesus Reyes, 31 years, from San Francisco de Macoris.
Search continues
David Corcino, responsible for public relations in the Navy, denied that the search has been suspended, and said an example of this is that they recovered two bodies yesterday afternoon.
There are still several missing persons, among them, 26 year-old Juan Carlos Paredes Faña from María Trinidad Sánchez; Yoerni Severino Amparo, 33, who resided in Los Alcarrizos (Santo Domingo), and Franklin Reyes, aged 33, from San Francisco de Macoris, according to what families have revealed to authorities present in the area.
The mother of Yoerni Severino Amparo, Benita Amparo, said that she begged him not to go, but he replied that "he would seek the well-being for his three children". She said that her son paid 20,000 pesos to the organizer of the trip, but would have to give him 20,000 more, when he arrived in Puerto Rico.
Benita has spent five days running from Acapulco Beach to the Cristo Redentor cemetery, hoping to hear something, even if it is just to recover the body of her offspring. "My son, put your feet in the ground, because things are not good, even in Puerto Rico", with these words Benita said goodbye to her son. She said that she hoped that she would see her son, even if among the 9 bodies that have not yet been identified.
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