, and her friends say she had every quality for it: she was empathetic, sweet, and kind. To pursue her dream, she left her hometown of Tamiahua and moved to to study at the Faculty of Health Sciences at the Universidad Veracruzana .

Her parents found her a safe, comfortable boarding house just four blocks from her school. They never imagined she would drown inside that turquoise-green house, the prettiest one on José Martí Street — trapped inside with the door locked. Loading…

The two-story home now bears the marks of the tragedy that unfolded there on Friday, October 10. Water stains still cover the walls of the room where Diana was studying. Fingerprints made of dried mud can be seen on the gray curtains in the kitchen — no one knows if they were Diana’s as she tried to escape,

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