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The Colombian 13 year-old spoke heart-wrenching final words after trying to survive a disaster for over 60 hours<\/h2>\n

Warning: This article contains content some readers may find upsetting<\/em><\/p>\n

A 13-year-old girl had the most heartbreaking final words right before she died following a deadly landslide.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Omayra S\u00e1nchez Garz\u00f3n became the face of a disaster in 1985 as she suffered for hours before succumbing to her injuries in a harrowing event in\u00a0Colombia.<\/a><\/p>\n

The 1985 eruption of Nevado del Ruiz\u00a0volcano<\/a> in Armero, saw an estimated 25,000 people lose their lives, ultimately 14 different villages utterly devastated.<\/p>\n

But it wasn\u2019t lava flow that cause the issues but the mudslide and landslides that followed after the eruption. One of which destroyed the home of Omayra.<\/p>\n

A volatile mixture of volcanic lava and ice, known as lahar, gushed into the river valleys below and towards the nearby villages.<\/p>\n

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\"Omayra<\/div>\n

Omayra S\u00e1nchez Garz\u00f3n became the face of a disaster in 1985 as she suffered for hours before succumbing to her injuries.(Wikimedia Commons)<\/cite><\/div>\n

This resulted in Omayra being trapped underneath the remnants of her family home for three whole days.<\/p>\n

In addition to this, bystanders could only watch in anguish as rescue efforts had proved hopeless and the 13-year-old lost her fight for survival as she lay trapped underneath the roof of her own home, pinned underwater by concrete and debris.<\/p>\n

Divers could not find a way to free her from the concrete without completely shattering her legs, but they had no resources to give her life-saving care if they amputated them.<\/p>\n

The image proved particularly haunting and spread around the world as it showed Omayra in a terrible state.<\/p>\n

Journalists, photographers,\u00a0TV<\/a>\u00a0crews, Red Cross workers and emergency officials had gathered around her and attempted to make her as comfortable as possible, hoping for a miracle or eleventh hour rescue.<\/p>\n

On the third day, Omayra had begun hallucinating and she told the stunned people that she couldn\u2019t be late for\u00a0school<\/a>\u00a0as she had a maths test.<\/p>\n

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Rescue attempt of Omayra following the landslide (Pool BOUVET\/DUCLOS\/HIRES\/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images)<\/cite><\/div>\n

Her eyes had now become so bloodshot that they appeared black, while her hands had whitened and her face had swelled.<\/p>\n

Omayra final words were a loving dote to her family, speaking directly to a camera she said: “Mommy, I love you so much, daddy I love you, brother I love you.”<\/p>\n

She died on November 16, 1985, and it is believed she died as a result of gangrene or hypothermia.<\/p>\n

While the landslide killed Omayra\u2019s father and aunt, her brother survived only losing a finger. Her mother, happened to be in Bogota at the time of eruption.<\/p>\n

She later said about Omayra’s death: “It is horrible, but we have to think about the living… I will live for my son, who only lost a finger.”<\/p>\n

The Colombian government were heavily criticized for their lack of preparation amid the threat of the volcano in wake of Omayra’s death.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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