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Tourist drowns in Puerto Rico

Aguadilla (CyberNews) – A tourist drowned at 3:41 Crash Boat Beach in Aguadilla, police said.
The tourist has been identified as David A. Seaman is reported having drowned during a picnic. An investigation is continuing. Read Article

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Road deaths in Belize, highest in Latin America, major safety push on

The government of Belize today implements road safety project aimed at reducing the high death rate from traffic accidents recorded here, the minister of state, Santino Castillo . The authorities are alarmed because the country has the highest rate of road deaths in Latin America in recent years, which amounts to 21.6 per 100 000 […]

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Americans, Swiss, Canadian, others rescued sailing from Panama to Cartagena Colombia

Five Americans, one Swiss, one Panamanian, one Canadian, one Colombian sailing from Panama for Cartagena resucued. The crew of the vessel amounted to report the incident to the line 123 of the Police, who informed the Coast Guard of Cartagena, who undertook the rescue. Nine people were rescued by the Navy units, after the boat […]

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Peru: four tourists from Denmark rescued after thrown from raft in river tour

Grau, Arequipa, Peru Arequipa. An intrepid tour Chili river rafting almost cost the lives of four Danish tourists and a guide Cusipata boating agency. All were saved yesterday by police from the Rescue Unit, at the height of the bridge Bolognesi. Nina Jorgensen (20), Hensen Nicolini (20), Sofie Jacobsen (23) and Rasmus Luno (24) hired […]

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Woman commits suicide in front of tourists at Iguazu Falls Argentina

Monica Heck’s body was found by staff Prefecture floating in waters of the Iguazu River. The woman took her life yesterday after confirming a terminal illness. (March 7, 2013) During the morning of Thursday, Prefecture staff was informed about the presence of a floating body at kilometer 20 of the Iguazu River, a place known […]

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Two tourists fined for using stove in Torres del Paine National Park, Chile

lasegunda.com reported that two tourists have been fined $ 50,000 each, and the conditional suspension of proceedings requested the prosecutor Ivan Tamayo against two tourists-the Deriguti Argentina and Chile’s Paola Alejandra Saavedra-who were caught using a stove along the path between the shelters Paine Grande and Grey, at the height of the Stones River National […]

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Acapulco Mexico: Canadian couple attacked in tourist zone

On or About March 5, 2013 / Main tourist zone According to frontera.info, despite maintaining surveillance Federal Police (PF) in Acapulco, a Canadian tourist couple was assaulted and beaten by three men who were traveling on a scooter by the Costera Miguel Aleman, across from the restaurant “El Zorrito”. According to the police report, a […]

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Puntarenas Costa Rica: Dengue Alert

costaricantimes.com reported that for all those people that have noticed a few more mosquitoes than normal during dry season, they are not a figment of the imagination. No rains have come, however there is talk of an epidemic of dengue in Puntarenas and even a recent death of a woman infected with the virus. dengue-costa_rica […]

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Quintana Roo, Mexico: two police officers charged in rape of Italian tourist

Playa del Carmen The police of Quintana Roo (PJE) served an arrest warrant against two municipal police officers allegedly responsible for the crime of rape committed against a resident of Italian origin. The uniformed Mardonius Guzman and Jose Manuel Enríquez Gómez Hernández were made available to the judge, on charges of rape and abuse of […]

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Spanish government issues travel alert for Acapulco and other areas of northern Mexico

Among the “special danger zones” in northern Mexico Spain’s government asks its citizens to avoid include Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua, border and mountain areas of that entity, Durango, Sinaloa and Sonora populations area lower Rio Grande Valley, the Texas border, Ciudad Victoria, rural and urban Tampico, Tamaulipas. Spain’s government advised its citizens traveling or living in […]

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