Saturday 5 April 2014

Two Belizeans drowned in the Macal River

On April 4, 2014 at around 4:00pm in the Macal River park near the low lying bridge to Santa Elena two teenaged High school students from Escuela Secundaria Tecnica Mexico (ESTM) were identified drowned. Yesterday the class went to a trip to Cayo District, were they went to see  Che-Chem Ha caves in Cayo.

According to the report, The two teenaged students in San Roman Village, Corozal were the school is located, were identified as 16 year old male Edgar Puck from Patchakan and 15 year old female Anahli Zepeda from San Joaquin, Corozal.

On the way back while travelling in a group on a Morales bus,  the bus stopped to let the students swim in the river. Unexpectedly, that's when the two teenager's drowned on the river. As a class trip this was not planned in their list.

 Several tour guides, police officers and worried residents rescued Puck's body within an hour. It was later transported to the morgue in the San Ignacio Community Hospital. As for Zepeda it was also found an hour later and was later transported to the San Ignacio Community Hospital.