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Cops Won’t Speculate On Where They Were Headed
posted (April 29, 2019)
And at today's press briefing, police say they don't know for sure exactly where they were headed of what caused this triple tragedy. The Commander of Operations Marco Vidal told us more at headquarters in Belmopan:

ACP Marco Vidal- Commander of Operations
"On Saturday the first incident was at 8pm, where police responded to the village of San Antonio and a blue Toyota car was seen submerged in the water with its 4 wheels upwards. The 3 occupants of the car was extracted from the vehicle, they are Kelvin Augustine, 28 years of 8 Miles George Price Highway; Efrain Martinez, 21 years of Belize District and then Oscar Portillo. We suspect that they may have drown. We have yet to get the post-mortem. They were extracted from the vehicle and they were motionless. The vehicle was travelling from Santa Antonio to the direction of Yo Creek when it ran off the left hand side of the bridge."

Reporter
"IS there any indication as to what may have led to the accident? We know that that area you can go across and drink over on the Mexican side. Is it possible that they were intoxicated when they came back."

ACP Marco Vidal
"It is likely, but I would be speculating. The post-mortem will determine that. But yes there is a village across on the Mexican side which is Botes that people do frequent, but as I said the post-mortem will determine if they were under the influence."

This is not the first time three young men have died in Orange Walk on Saturday night. In December of 2016, three men - ages 22, 23, and 26 died while out on A Saturday night. That one happened on the Yo Creek Road.

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