Puerto Aventuras, Q.R. — Security personnel at a Puerto Aventuras residential complex found a man dead in a property cenote Sunday. According to preliminary information, the deceased man is reported to have been a worker of the complex.
His body was found around 10:30 a.m. in the body of water off Puerto Aventuras Boulevard. A security guard saw the man in the water during a Sunday morning patrol round.
Upon noticing the body, the security guard returned to his booth where he requested assistance from emergency services and coworkers.
Staff from the booth rushed to the cenote’s edge to help retrieve the man from the water. Paramedics confirmed him dead at the scene.
The deceased has not been named. There are local reports that beer cans were found near where the body is believed to have entered the water, likely the night before. The man’s death is being treated as an accidental drowning.
