Cancun, Q.R. — UPDATED: Cancun Hotel Zone Tourist Police removed a body found floating in a section of the Nichupté Lagoon Friday. People walking across the Puente Calinda bridge around 8:00 a.m. called 9-1-1 after seeing the man floating in the sea below.
Tourist Police from the Cancun Hotel Zone arrived to verify the report of a man floating in the water under the Calinda Bridge. The man, reported to be around 40 years of age and fully clothed, was pulled from the water by police with help from nearby Civil Protection lifeguards.
The man’s body was pulled from the water at kilometer 4 of Kukulcán Boulevard in wait for personnel from the State Attorney General’s Office. Personnel from Servicios Periciales arrived to remove the body.
Ministerial Police, who also responded, began looking for security cameras and conducting interviews with people in the area in order to obtain information that would help determine what happened.
Police have not speculated on how the man came to be in the water or who he was. It is not known if he fell from the bridge or entered the sea from another point in the hotel zone. Local authorities are working on details surrounding the death of the man, including how he died.
UPDATE June 25: The State Attorney General (FGE) has identified the victim and provided a cause of death following a Friday morning autopsy. “The FGE started an investigation after locating the floating body of a deceased man near the beach, at the height of kilometer 4.5 of Kukulcán Boulevard.
“According to the autopsy, the cause of death was derived from a cerebral hemorrhage.
“This Social Representation is working to locate the family of the deceased, who responded to the name of Ronald Zeferino González, identified through a driver’s license he was carrying.
“The Attorney General’s Office recommends that the public and visitors use extreme caution when carrying out activities in bodies of water.”
