Collision claims 7 celebrating in Santiago

Santiago.- Seven people, five of one same family, died in an dawn Sunday accident where only one survived.

Yacely Lima, 22; Tania Files, 43; Pamela Vargas, 14; Elías Samuel Peralta, 25; Carlos Argelis Reyes, 20; Yalkiris Martinez, who would’ve been 17 today, and Antonio Manuel Lantigua, 55 died around 5am when the group in a pickup truck headed to the landmark El Monumento to celebrate Martinez’s birthday.

The bodies were taken to the Cabral and Báez hospital morgue and then handed over to their grief stricken relatives, all from Dajabón.