A single mum who raised her three children alone was killed by a missile in the US attack on Venezuela after trying to get her injured daughter to safety.
Yohana Rodriguez Sierra, 45, from Colombia, died instantly in Saturday's early-hours attack and her nurse daughter Ana Corina Morales, 22, was rushed to hospital with leg wounds. The street seller’s heartbroken family described her as a “good woman” after telling how injured Ana phoned them during the bombing to say: “They’re killing us, they’ve killed my mum.”
Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, who has condemned the US action which led to the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and his wife Cilia Flores, raged: “Donald Trump, under your internationally illegal orders, an innocent Colombian and Caribbean mother full of dreams for her daughter was murdered.”
Yohana was born in the port city of Cartagena on Colombia’s Caribbean coast but emigrated to Venezuela several years ago. Two missiles are said to have fallen on the house where she and her daughter were sleeping near TV towers in El Hatillo, one of the five municipalities of Caracas, when the American bombardment began.
The explosion from the first missile is understood to have woken them violently and the second fell as they sought refuge in their patio.
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