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Mar 16, 2001

Body of drowning victim found in river

The body of a drowning victim has been recovered from the Belize River. On Thursday police found the corpse, identified as thirty-five year old Dennis Lockwood of Sandhill, lodged along the bank. Lockwood had been missing since Tuesday when he was seen by his cousin trying to swim across the river near Baker’s Ranch. A postmortem has confirmed that Lockwood died from asphyxia due to drowning.


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