10 Farm Workers, Child Killed in Crash Identified
Relatives said that 10 farm workers who were killed when their van crashed into a truck-trailer rig were originally from the city of Sensunte in El Salvador.
The dead farm workers, along with a 1-year-old who was killed Sunday, were reportedly traveling to Fresno to do Christmas shopping and planned to return to El Salvador for the holiday.
On Monday, the coroner’s office released the victims’ names and ages, where available.
They were identified as Jose Baltazar Larreynaga, 45, and Maria Laura Larreynaga, his wife; the couple’s daughter, Laura Elizabeth Larreynaga, her husband Daniel Hugo Escalante, 24, and 1-year-old daughter, Janie Larreynaga.
Also killed were Jose M. Escalante; Guillermo Pineda Rivas; Mario Escobar Torres, 28; Rene Alvarenza-Escobar, 22; Jose Raul Abarca, 32; and Cruz Antonio Membrano, 46.
The lone survivor, Dolorez Arriga, was in satisfactory condition at a Fresno hospital. He was seated in the back of the van that collided with a tractor-trailer on a fog-shrouded rural highway west of Fresno on Sunday morning.
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