One-and-a-half year old Yandra Rossó miraculously survived a 100 meter fall by landing on a shrub when the jeep in which she was traveling lost control. Five other fellow travelers, including her 27 year old mother, nurse Ana Antonia Canario, died in the tragedy, the worst during the past Easter Week. Yandra was traveling with her twin sister, Chantal, and relatives Santiago Canario, 62, his wife Maria Bautista de Canario, 60, 34 year old Evarista Canario Rossó, on Thursday, 8 April to spend the Easter long weekend with her grandmother in Palo Alto, Barahona, in the southwest of the Dominican Republic. The accident occurred on the Azua-Barahona highway, when the driver lost control of the jeep when a tire exploded. The deceased were taken to the public hospital of Azua, to where Police sergeant Evaristo Rossó later traveled to pick up his daughter. The little girl is now with her grandmother in Barahona. She was visited by Santo Domingo Mayor Rafael Suberví Bonilla, who aspires to be a deputy for Barahona in Congress and Jose González Espinosa, who is running for senator also on the same Partido Revolucionario Dominicano ticket as Suberví.
