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Man Died After Being Robbed and Beaten Up In Griga
posted (March 4, 2013)
And while those murders happened in the Belize District, there was a murder in Stann Creek. It happened form last week, but police only just reported it today.

Tonight, the family of 35 year-old Honduran National Julio Lopez Funez is making preparations to bury him after he was robbed and beaten last week Wednesday.

According to police, at around 1 p.m., Lopez, who is a resident of Dangriga Town, was walking on Tubroose Street after cashing his pay checque at the Belize Bank. He was approached by unknown culprits who beat him badly, leaving him unconscious.

He was discovered by Dangriga Police half hour later. They rushed him to the Southern Regional Hospital and he was later transported to the KHMH where he died on Friday morning.

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