It was dawn, and Police Officer Mauro Enrique Vera Suarez was in the middle of suiting up for work. The shock wave jolted his station like an earthquake.
It swung the doors and windows.
Suarez and his colleagues went outside. “They told us there was an explosion,” he told CNN affiliate FOROtv.
Only half equipped, he jumped straight into his squad car. “We left as we were,” he said. And rushed to the site marked by broad billows of smoke and dust towering over the city.
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Reporters asked him about the newborn in the tweeted photo.
The baby was one of the two who didn’t make it. “It was a baby that had….a very serious fracture in its head, and unfortunately died,” Ahued said.
“It’s very sad news,” Suarez told CNNMexico. He has two grown children himself. He sent a message to the baby’s parents.
“I will be with them in their pain.”
