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According
to the investigators' report,
police responded Sunday to an
emergency call alerting
officers that man had died at
his home.
/ Nicoya Red Cross
courtesy photo
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Judicial
agents investigate death of
Canadian citizen in Guanacaste
By the A.M. Costa Rica staff
The Judicial Investigation
Organization, know as OIJ,
reported that its agents continue
investigating of the death of a
Canadian citizen surnamed
Limimana, 78 years old, after his
body was found Sunday at his home
in the town of La Cananga*
in Nicoya, Guanacaste.
According to the investigators'
report, police responded Sunday to
an emergency call alerting
officers that man had died at his
home. When the police arrived,
around 5:30 p.m, officers
confirmed that the man had died.
In appearance, it is a natural
death, investigators said.
However, the forensic doctors took
the body to the Judicial Morgue in
Heredia*
where the autopsy will confirm the
cause of death.
Expats accidental deaths reported
by the Red Cross this year were:
- March 12, the Red Cross
officials in Limón confirmed the
death of a U.S. woman surnamed
White, age 60, at Grande Beach in
Cahuita*.
According to the rescuer agency's
report, the emergency call was
received at 11:30 a.m. about a
woman who was swimming near the
beach when a rip current sent her
out toward the sea."
When the Red Cross paramedic staff
arrived at the beach, White had
been brought to the beach by local
rescuers. Paramedics were only
able to declare her dead of an
apparent drowning. Ms. White was
identified by a man, also named
White, who was with her on the
beach.
- Feb. 22, Red Cross rescuers in
Guanacaste station reported that
they recovered the body of a U.S.
citizen surnamed Seymour, 71 years
old, who drowned at Negra Beach*
in the town of Santa Cruz.
According to the rescuers report
they received an emergency call
about a man who entered the water
at Negra Beach but who could not
be located. When they arrived at
the site, they found that some
locals had managed to get the
man's body back to the beach, they
said.
Witnesses report that Seymour had
apparently been staying at a hotel
near the beach, and had decided to
go surfing in the morning. A few
minutes after entering the sea, he
disappeared.
Raúl Montenegro, a police officer
of the Tamarindo station, said
that ”when we arrived at the
place, the Red Cross team was
already there. They confirmed that
the man was dead."
The police reported that they
found Seymour's identification
among his personal belongings.
- Feb. 5 the Judicial
Investigation Organization
reported that a Canadian citizen
surnamed Richard-Johnson, 60 years
old, died of an accident in the
town of La Cruz* in
Guanacaste.
According to the report,
Richard-Johnson was apparently on
vacation and staying at a hotel in
the town of La Cruz when he fell
from a ladder and sustained a
serious blow to his head that may
have caused his death.
- Jan. 2, a U.S. teen died after
being struck by a falling tree.
That day, Hospital Mexico's
information department confirmed
that the 14-year-old surnamed
Johnson died while she and her
family were at an animal park in Heredia*.
Alfredo Mulato of the Red Cross
said that morning, at 8 a.m., they
got the emergency call from a
tourist center in the town of
Cinchona near Heredia. The call
requested immediate attention for
a girl who had been struck by a
tree while visiting a tourist
attraction, he said.
When the Red Cross Unit M-67 of
Heredia arrived at the scene and
found that Johnson had been hit by
multiple branches and had a
serious blow to her head. "The
rescuers proceeded to give her
first aid in the area and then she
was sent in the M-67 ambulance to
the sports plaza in Vara Blanca in
Heredia, where the ambulance
helicopter took her to the
Hospital Mexico in La Uruca," the
report said. She died that
afternoon at the hospital.
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