Omarya Sanchez

Age: 13

Summary: Colombian schoolgirl who had been trapped for three days by debris in a pool of mud and water up to her neck from Colombia's volcano eruption that destroyed her home town, who became a national symbol of resilience after El Tiempo, a daily newspaper, published her story as rescue workers tried in vain to pry her leg from under a collapsed concrete slab and the death drip of an aunt buried far below the sludge after the Nov. 13, 1985 volcanic eruption, which killed more than 22,000 people, whose ordeal had been relayed abroad by the scores of foreign journalists and television camera crews that converged on the farm town of Armero in northwest Colombia, flattened by the avalanche of mud and rocks hurled down by the Nevado del Ruiz volcano when it erupted.

Cause of Death: Complications from hypothermia or gangrene

Born: August 28, 1972

Died: November 16, 1985

Location: Armero, Colombia