An unidentified man picked a quiet place to die Wednesday.

The scene was the chapel of Santa Margarita in Barrio Amón where nuns affiliated with chapel heard a gunshot about 11:10 a.m.

Fearing the worst, the nuns quickly locked the access to the chapel and waited until police arrived. They said later that they feared a robbery was in progress.

Based on what the nuns suspected, an army of police arrived. When they cautiously entered the chapel they found the body of a man in his 60s dead from what appeared to be a self-inflicted wound to the head.

The man had no identification, and there was no word on his identify. From the flowered shirt and other clothes he appeared to be a foreigner.

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Police on the Caribbean coast quickly tracked a credit card stolen from tourists and managed to capture three theft suspects.

The Fuerza Pública said that Tuesday three men stole luggage, a digital camera and telephones from a vehicle operated by two foreign tourists. This happened at a Cahuita hotel.

Xinia Vásquez, director of the Policía Turística said that the pair of foreign tourists went to the local police station to report the crime. That is when officers took them to a center for tourists so they could report the loss of their credit cards. In doing so, the pair learned that one of their cards was in use at a bar in Limón to the north, said Ms. Vásquez.

When police arrived at the bar in Limón Centro they found three men, and one of them had a passport of one of the theft victims in his possession, police said.  The trio also drove a car similar to the one reported by the tourists. The three men, San José residents, were detained. They were identified by the last names of Madrigal, Zamora and Paniagua.

Police said they found the possessions of the tourists within the vehicle used by the men.