Morelense dies after being hit by a train in New York

Jorge Pina Barrios, a native of Cuernavaca, died on December 8 after suffering an accident at the Myrtle Avenue subway station in New York.

Jorge was hit by a subway train while returning from work, commented Laura Apeitia, wife of Pina; She stopped having contact with him because she didn’t answer her phone. Then he didn’t come home in the evening, his wife reported him missing.

The authorities contacted her and informed her that her husband had been in an accident on the subway.

“They tell me my husband was dead, at 3:30 in the morning he was hit by a train and apparently it was an accident, they don’t know if it was an accident or they pushed me, there are no surveillance cameras,” she said Laura. .

It has been 8 months since Jorge Pina arrived with his family in New York from Cuernavaca, Morelos.

Laura also commented that her husband was the breadwinner in her family and that her body was in the morgue because you don’t have the resources to hire a funeral service. added. That you are seeking the support of the Mexican Consulate for the repatriation of your body to your hometown.

“I’m starting to move because they are resources that I don’t have, he was the one who supported us, I have a three-month-old baby and a 7-year-old son… his whole family is in Mexico and what I want is to repatriate him so that he may rest in peace. ”