Colombia’s consulate confirmed on Tuesday that Leonela Alemán Morales, a 27-year-old canyonist, was the second victim of the Germasogeia building collapse — she had been in Cyprus on a leisure trip to Europe when the collapse happened.
Her identity remained unknown for almost two weeks. Authorities relied on DNA and fingerprint analysis for the identification.
The collapse occurred on Holy Saturday, April 11, when a two-storey building containing several apartments in the Germasogeia area of Limassol suddenly collapsed.
A post-mortem examination carried out by forensic pathologist Nikolas Charalambous established that both victims died from crush syndrome.
According to philenews sources, evidence gathered by investigators suggested Alemán Morales had booked the apartment through the Booking.com platform a few days before the collapse.
The apartment belongs to a private owner but is managed by a company that rents it out to third parties.
From the day of the collapse, Alemán Morales’s relatives in the Colombian city of Barranquilla had held out hope that she would be found alive, following every development in the search operation.
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