DUBLIN BUS TRAGEDY: THE VICTIMS: VASYL TYMINSKAY - I could hear cries & screams..then someone picked up the phone and told me there had been an accident.Byline: PAT FLANAGAN John Patrick "Pat" Flanagan (born 1891 in Preston, Lancashire) was an English footballer. An inside forward, Flanagan played youth football for Stourbridge before joining Norwich City in 1908, before moving to Fulham in 1909. A DEVOTED father was on a mobile phone to his young daughter when he was mown mow 1 n. 1. The place in a barn where hay, grain, or other feed is stored. 2. A stack of hay or other feed stored in a barn. down by the runaway bus, it was revealed yesterday. Tragic Vasyl Tyminskay, 33, had just told his 11-year-old daughter Khrystyna that he loved her and that he was getting the bus home when he was killed. Distraught dis·traught adj. 1. Deeply agitated, as from emotional conflict. 2. Mad; insane. [Middle English, alteration of distract, past participle of distracten, Khrystyna heard the noise of the impact and then had to listen to the screams of the dying and injured. For more than a minute the young girl had to endure the pitiful pit·i·ful adj. 1. Inspiring or deserving pity. 2. Arousing contemptuous pity, as through ineptitude or inadequacy. See Synonyms at pathetic. 3. Archaic Filled with pity or compassion. cries of victims in the worst ever bus accident in the history of the state. The child screamed for her father until a man lifted up the phone and told her there had been a terrible accident. Khrystyna said: "Dad said he was heading home and that he loved me and would see me later. Then I heard noise and there was silence. Then I could hear screams and cries. "I kept saying, 'What's wrong dad, what's wrong'. He didn't answer me. "Someone lifted the phone and said there had been an accident and that people were injured." Ukrainian Vasyl and four others died when the out-of- service double decker went out of control and mounted the pavement at Wellington Quay QUAY, estates. A wharf at which to load or land goods, sometimes spelled key. 2. In its enlarged sense the word quay, means the whole space between the first row of houses of a city, and the sea or river 5 L. R. 152, 215. on Saturday afternoon. Last night grieving Khrystyna and her mother Svitlana pleaded for help in getting Vasyl's body home to Ukraine. Their Eastern Orthodox religion demands the body is taken to their relative's home before burial. Khrystyna also revealed that yesterday was her parents' 12th anniversary and they had planned a party. She added: "Please help us get my daddy home. We have to bring him to his parent's home and he must be buried in three days' time. "We still can't believe all this. We were so happy here in Ireland and this has turned into a nightmare. "My parents were to celebrate their anniversary and now my dad is dead. When we went to the hospital we only knew that he was injured. "But then a nurse came to me and told me he was dead. I had to tell my mother because she did not fully understand what she said." Heartbroken Svitlana told how she still can't believe her husband is dead. She said: "It is hard to believe he is gone. We have to get him home now. Please help us." Members of the Ukrainian community in Dublin are also rallying round to help the family. Local people in the quiet suburb of Kew Park in Lucan, Co Dublin, were last night comforting Svitlana and Khrystyna who moved there three years ago. They revealed the family had been perfect neighbours and that Vasyl was was a devoted family man. Next door neighbour Ciaran Delmar said: "They are lovely people and do not deserve this. Vasyl was such a hard worker and did all the hours he could. "He was a plasterer with a construction company in the city and took two buses to get to work every day. "I have to say they are great people - the best neighbours. "Vasyl said he wanted to buy his dream home in Ukraine and it was going to cost him around EUR EUR In currencies, this is the abbreviation for the Euro. Notes: The currency market, also known as the Foreign Exchange market, is the largest financial market in the world, with a daily average volume of over US $1 trillion. 20,000. "He had his flight booked for March to go home and oversee the start of work on the house. Now all their dreams have been shattered. "Their customs demand the deceased be buried three days after death and we are appealing to all relevant authorities to help them. "After what has happened this country has a duty to do everything possible." The family were last night hoping Vasyl's body would be released after an autopsy by State Path- ologist Marie Cassidy Professor Marie Cassidy was appointed[1] state pathologist in the Republic of Ireland in January, 2004. She succeeded Dr John Harbison. Her previous jobs included deputy state pathologist and the professorship of forensic medicine in the University of Glasgow. . pat.flanagan@ irishmirror.ie |
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