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Aug 5, 2002

Guatemalan drowns near Roaring Creek

A Guatemalan resident of Roaring Creek drowned Sunday in the Belize River. Twenty-eight year old Marcelino Mejia went swimming around 1:00 in the afternoon in the company of a nine year old boy. According to the boy, Mejia went under the water and did not come back up. The body was retrieved and Mejia was pronounced D.O.A. at Belmopan Hospital.


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