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Heartbreaking footage shows the final moments of a 13-year-old girl trapped after a deadly landslide.

Omayra Sánchez Garzón was still a little girl when she became the face of a disaster in 1985.

The photo she took is etched in the memories of many who saw her stuck in the water, unable to get to safety.

When the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Armero erupted in 1985, around 25,000 people lost their lives and 14 different villages in Colombia were devastated.

The poor girl suffered for hours before her injuries in this horrific event finally became her undoing.

While you might not be blamed for thinking the problems were caused by the lava flow, it was actually the mudslides and landslides that followed the eruption that caused total chaos.

One of these landslides destroyed Omayra’s house.

This mixture of volcanic lava and ice, also called lahar, flowed into villages, houses and streets, devastating everything in its path.

After the terrible incident, Omayra was trapped under the roof of her house for three days and had no way to escape.

This is because she was held in place underwater by concrete and building materials, which if divers had removed, her legs would have been shattered.

Combined with the fact that amputating her legs would have prevented them from providing life-saving treatment, any option would have been a death sentence for the little girl.

Omayra had to wait for the inevitable to happen, while bystanders watched in fear for 60 hours as rescue efforts failed.

It didn’t take long before the 13-year-old finally lost her fight for survival.

But shortly before her death, a picture reminded the world in a striking way of what had happened in the village.

It showed Omayra’s terrible health as her condition worsened.

However, she was not left alone for a moment.

Journalists, photographers, television crews, Red Cross workers and rescue workers gathered around her, trying to make her as comfortable as possible, hoping for a miracle or a last-minute rescue.

On the third day, Omayra began to hallucinate and she told the stunned people that she could not be late for school because she had to write a math test.

Her eyes had now become so bloodshot that they appeared black, her hands had turned white, and her face was swollen.

Omayra’s last words were a loving nod to her family. She said directly into the camera: “Mommy, I love you so much, Daddy, I love you, Brother, I love you.”

She died on November 16, 1985. It is believed that she died of gangrene or hypothermia.

While the landslide killed Omayra’s father and aunt, her brother survived with only one finger. Her mother happened to be in Bogota at the time of the eruption.

She later said of Omayra’s death: “It is terrible, but we must think of the living… I will live for my son, who only lost a finger.”

After Omayra’s death, the Colombian government was heavily criticized for its lack of preparation for the threat posed by the volcano.