The Ministry of Economy, Planning and Development has announced that the body of government official Rosalina Ynoa Gonzalez will be returned to the country on Friday, 2 August. Ynoa died on Wednesday, 24 July in Spain when the train in which she was travelling derailed, killing 78 other people.
The Minister Temistocles Montas will head a high-level commission that will be waiting to receive the body at Las Americas Airport, according to the communications unit at the Ministry, Diario Libre reports today, Wednesday 31 July.
The wake will take place at the Blandino funeral home on Ave. Abraham Lincoln in Santo Domingo and she will be buried at the Parque de Prado Cemetery.
At the time of the accident, Ynoa Gonzalez was International Cooperation Director of the Ministry’s Analysis and Coordination Unit.
She was the mother of four children and had travelled to Spain together with the deputy minister of International Cooperation, Inocencio Garcia, to attend a meeting of Cooperation Representatives, organized by the General Ibero-American Secretariat (SEGIB).
With her official business over, Ynoa was traveling to Galicia to visit her sister.
Yesterday, Tuesday 30 July it was revealed that famous former Spanish judge Baltasar Garzon would represent Ynoa’s husband Alberti Carela and her four children in a lawsuit against the Renfe train company. The Spanish press reports that the train company’s insurance company, Allianz Seguros would pay compensation ranging from EUR$1,500 to EUR$70,000 depending on the severity of the case, and that compensation for relatives of the deceased would be EUR$60,000.
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