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Apr 23, 2009

Body of drowning victim found

Story PictureSince Monday, he plunged into the waters of the Belize River and in the wee hours of this morning, the body of forty-eight year old Desmond Kerr was retrieved from near the Haulover Bridge about a mile away from Bainton Bank. Around three-thirty this morning, members of the Coast Guard and police scouring the area found Kerr’s decomposed body floating in the river. This afternoon a post-mortem examination revealed that Kerr died from asphyxia due to drowning.


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