Watchman is dead in apparent suicide

A Belize City man has apparently taken his own life. Carmen Hernandez, a thirty-eight year old naturalized Belizean, originally from El Salvador, was found hanging from a rope at a warehouse at mile three on the Northern Highway. Hernandez was employed at the warehouse as a watchman and also did work as a mason. On Monday afternoon his boss, Antonio Quan, arrived at the building to unload some goods. When he went upstairs looking for Hernandez he found him hanging by the neck from a nylon rope, dressed only in his underwear. Hernandez was pronounced dead on arrival at the KHMH. Police await the results of a post mortem to see if the death was self-inflicted or the result of foul play.