{"id":114582,"date":"2018-07-17T10:33:20","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T14:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/?p=114582"},"modified":"2018-07-17T10:33:20","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T14:33:20","slug":"three-brothers-drown-in-san-pedro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/07\/17\/three-brothers-drown-in-san-pedro\/","title":{"rendered":"Three brothers drown in San Pedro"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_114550\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-114550\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-114550\" src=\"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/3-brothers-drowned-in-SPM-El-Tiempo-300x152.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"152\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-114550\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo: El Tiempo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Brigades from Civil Defense recovered the corpses of three brothers, 12-year old Jose Enrique, 8-year old Ricardito and 6-year old Richard Mota de Le\u00f3n who were last seen when they playfully jumped into a lagoon for cooling off in summer in the community of Cayacoita in Cayacoa de San Jos\u00e9 de los Llanos, in San Pedro de Macoris province. The alert was given by a fourth brother, 5-year old Pedrito, who did not follow his brothers into the lagoon and instead returned home to tell his parents his brothers did not return to land.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers were the sons of Maura de Le\u00f3n and Antol\u00edn Mota Nieves.<\/p>\n<p>The tragedy occurred on Sunday, 15 July 2018, and the search began the same day and then resumed at 6 am on the next day, Monday, 16 July. A backhoe was used to try to reduce the water level of lake. The bodies were found on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The Guayacanes Fire Brigade, National Police and volunteers joined the Civil Defense in the search.<\/p>\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.listindiario.com\/la-republica\/2018\/07\/16\/524392\/son-hermanos-los-tres-ninos-desaparecidos-en-una-laguna-en-san-pedro-de-macoris\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Listin Diario<\/a><\/p>\n<p>17 July 2018<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brigades from Civil Defense recovered the corpses of three brothers, 12-year old Jose Enrique, 8-year old Ricardito and 6-year old Richard Mota de Le\u00f3n who were last seen when they playfully jumped into a lagoon for cooling off in summer in the community of Cayacoita in Cayacoa de San Jos\u00e9 de los Llanos, in San &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2018\/07\/17\/three-brothers-drown-in-san-pedro\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}