U.S. tourist drowns at Ambergris Caye
In news just in from the police, a U.S. tourist drowned this afternoon in waters off Ambergris Caye. Arthur Pederson, believed to be in his late forties, was snorkelling with a group of visitors at the Hol Chan Marine Reserve at the reef just south of the island when around two-thirty he began to experience difficulties. He was taken by boat to San Pedro where he was pronounced dead on arrival at the town’s medical clinic. Pederson’s body is being transported to Belize City for a post-mortem at the K.H.M.H.
