Police in San Juan, Puerto Rico have informed that two Dominican tourist guides who drowned yesterday, when they were caught in a riptide off the beach in Vega Alta in the north of the island. The Dominicans who died were 19 year old Romedarys Mesa Santos, and 34 year old Antonio Santana, who lived in Carolina near San Juan.
According to the director of the State Agency for Emergency Management (AEMEAD) the incident happened at 5:30pm when the two guides, along with six American tourists were taking photographs on a large rock on the edge of Cerro Gordo beach when the large wave swept them off the rock and pulled them out to sea. The tourists all survived but suffered various injuries. One of the tourists managed to pull one of the Dominican victims from the sea, but he did not survive.
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El Nacional
17 May 2017
