A fire broke out on the afternoon of Sunday, August 7, in the Juan Pablo apartment building, in the 0 avenue and 3rd. zone 7 street in Mixco.

According to the preliminary report, seven people died in the fire: a couple of ex-husbands, an 18-year-old girl and four minors, including 4-year-old twins.

A marital conflict would have caused the fire that the Municipal Firefighters put out on Sunday in apartment 402 of the Juan Pablo condominium.

neighbors story
Neighbors who live in the condominium and who preferred to remain anonymous reported that the incident could have occurred after a fight between the ex-spouses.

The man, the residents say, He would have been responsible for setting the house on fire with his ex-partner and children inside.

A neighbor, who also preferred to omit her name, recalled that the emergency was registered at around 4:00 p.m.

“We are in shock because we never imagined that we could experience something like this in this condominium”, he stated.

He added: “The glass exploded, that was the first thing we heard and when we went out to see what had happened, then we realized that the apartment was on fire and we went down because we couldn’t stay up here because of the smoke coming out of the apartment”.

He recalled that first the firefighters and the National Civil Police arrived to attend to the emergency, then the Public Ministry (MP).

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