the chilling story of the survivors

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Like other survivors, Miah Cerrillo, 11, told the US Congress the horror of the shooting in Uvalde (Texas), where 19 students and two teachers were killed last May.

In the House of Representatives in the United States, a succession of testimonies, as poignant as they are unbearable, follow one another. US MPs listened to the horror story of survivors of the Uvalde shooting, to Texas. Among the stories, that of Miah Cerrillo, 11 years old, in CM1 class. “We went to hide behind the backpacks and he shot a comrade right next to me. I felt he was going to come back. So I took some of his blood to put it all over my body , I remained motionless and then afterwards, I took the phone from my mistress’s body and I called the emergency services”says the little girl.

The parents of Lexie, 10 years old, massacred with an assault rifle, cannot contain their anger. “We had promised her that we would eat ice cream together in the evening. But that morning, I dropped my daughter off at school and this decision will haunt me until the end of my days”, cries his mother. The pediatrician who received the children at the hospital claims that some were pulverized and decapitated by the impact of bullets from the assault rifle. He pleaded with politicians to review the gun law in order to save lives.


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