Four Miami People Die

2024 Author: Steven Freeman | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 08:15

A rafting accident killed four people from Miami, Florida, last weekend. The events occurred in Costa Rica, a country where three rafts that traveled down the Naranjo river, at approximately three in the afternoon, overturned, causing passengers to fall into the water and be dragged by the current, drowning, according to information from local authorities.

According to the Judicial Investigations Agency (OIJ) of said country, a total of 14 tourists and four guides were transported in said vessels; when falling, some managed to cling to the rafts and be rescued by another guide in a kayak. However, the four deceased did not suffer the same fate and died after being trapped in the water.

The official reports identified Ernesto Sierra, Jorge Caso, Sergio Lorenzo and Andrés Dennis, from the United States, as the people who perished in the accident. Your local guide was recognized as Kevin Thompson Reid. The Red Cross reported that the rafts capsized near Liverpool in Quepos.

The OIJ press secretary, Maricel Rodríguez, explained that the deceased were between 25 and 35 years old; They arrived in Costa Rica on Thursday, where they rented a house in the Playa Hermosa de Jaco area. The purpose of the trip was to celebrate the bachelor party of one of the people who managed to survive the incident; however, her brother did not suffer the same fate and is one of the dead.

For his part, the president of this nation, Carlos Alvarado Quesada, regretted the incident.

"I express my deep dismay at the accident that occurred this afternoon on the Naranjo River in Quepos," Alvarado Quesada wrote on his Twitter account.