MOTHER AND TWO CHILDREN DIE AFTER BEING RUN OVER IN SONSONATE

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The driver of the vehicle lost control and ran over the victims, who were waiting for public transportation at the side of the road.Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, Sonsonate branch, responded to a tragic traffic accident on the highway leading from Acajutla to Sonsonate, where a car ran over a woman and two minors.

The tragedy occurred around ten in the morning when the driver of a car, which apparently was being driven at excessive speed, lost control and ran over a woman who was waiting for public transportation with her two children.

Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador arrived at the scene of the traffic accident, where they found a heartbreaking scene, as the victims had been dragged several meters from the point of impact, and some of them were dismembered.

Among the deceased are Hermes David Hernández Cruz, 10; Eyli Lorena Hernández Cruz, 15; and Nury Lorena Cruz de Hernández, 37, who was thrown into a ditch, with her body recovered by rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento de Sonsonate and members of the Cuerpo de Bomberos Nacionales.

Meanwhile, during the night, a man died after being run over by a public-transportation minibus in the city of Quezaltepeque, La Libertad.

The victim was traveling along 7ª Calle Poniente in Barrio El Guayabal when he was struck by the driver of route 109’s minibus.

Rescuers from Comandos de Salvamento de El Salvador, Quezaltepeque branch, were alerted to the incident. However, when they arrived at the scene of the accident, the victim, identified as Carlos Abraham Melgar Serrano, 40, no longer had vital signs.