Another young life was lost this weekend - this time in a drowning. 17 year old Christian Valentin - a Belize City resident was swimming in Bermudan Landing on Holy Saturday afternoon when he suddenly went under water. Police told us about the effort to recover his body:
Insp. Frederick Gordon - Rural Executive Officer
"Over the weekend here, we had one drowning incident on Saturday the 4th of April. Sometime around 12:30pm thereabout, police received information that a Christian went swimming where the old Bermuda Landing ferry was, the person merged and a couple hours later his body was recovered and taken to the Karl Heusner where it now await post-mortem. The investigation reveals, from the statement of a person that he was along with, that he went into the water to bathe and he just jumped into the water and we understand that he couldn't swim. The same fellow went to save him but during the course of him trying to save him, the guy tried to pull him and apparently he got released and the person submerged under the water and he did not surface."
Reporter
"Do you know if they were drinking?"
Insp. Frederick Gordon - Rural Executive Officer
"We have nothing as such to indicate that."
There was also a drowning in the south where Honduran Jose Luis Lieva of Trio Village went to swim in the Bladden River, went under and did not resurface. His body was recovered the next day.
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