Tragedy in Uruguay: Two Cuban brothers die in a fire

Two Cuban brothers died this Monday in afire that broke out in the home where they lived in the city of Pando, in the metropolitan area of Montevideo,Uruguay.

The bodies of the young people, aged 21 and 23, were found by firefighters shortly before 7:00 p.m. on Monday, after arriving at the scene of the accident, a block masonry house with a light roof, located at kilometer 37 of Route 75 and Camino Erosa, the radio program reportedThe Pando Megaphone.

The deceased are namedEdward andBryan Cruz Pérez, as he was able to verifyCyberCuba through family sources.

In statements to the Uruguayan mediaUnderlined, a member of the Pando Fire Department declared that upon arriving at the house the flames had already been extinguished and they found the two Cubans dead.

An aunt of the young people, identified asCecilia Perez On social networks, he confirmed the death of both and requested help from friends and acquaintances to be able to transfer the bodies of his nephews to Cuba.

“It is with great pain that I come to you, to ask youhelp to be able to transport the bodies of my only two nephews, from Uruguay, where they lived, to Cuba, where their mother, [and the] wife and a girl survive one of them,” Pérez wrote inFacebook, where he provided a Zelle account number to raise funds to make the repatriation of the bodies possible.

“This is the hardest thing in our lives,” the aunt expressed with pain. “It all happened too quickly.”

Also a cousin of the deceased, namedEulalia Massague Pérez, a resident of Camagüey, went to social networks to express his pain for the loss of his relatives.

“Today we have lost two beautiful loved ones, my beautiful cousins, I will never forget them with those beautiful smiles, that love that they knew how to give in exchange for nothing. That is never forgotten. There is an irreparable pain in my heart that I cannot bear. I miss them so much, I wish time could go back to hug them and tell them how much I love them,” was the shockingmessage which he posted on Facebook.

In an update of the fact,The Pando Megaphone reported this Wednesday that, according to the Firefighters, the fiery focus that cut short the lives of the Cubans “was due toa wood stove that caused a small fire", which "It did not cause total material damage but it did cause the death of the young people, who were surely sleeping while the incident occurred.”.