UPDATE; Valdemar Alpuche Junior drowns in the water in Corozal body recovered

Today the police filed a report about a drowning in Corozal town Belize.  According to the Corozal Police at around 3:20 PM on Sunday March 20th, 2016 they were called that in the area of  South End area of the Corozal Bay, across from Caribbean Tires, a male was drowned in the water with a sky.

When police arrived at the scene,  they were told that Valdemar Alpuche Junior, better known as Bambito, was with his daughter and three other males, were all aboard in a single jet ski when they hit a wave causing the jet ski to flip and throw all five people off. The three men were reported to be wearing life jackets but Alpuche and his daughter were not and were reported to have gone under. The daughter was eventually found and rushed to the Corozal Community Hospital where she is being reported to be in a stable condition but as for her father, they are unable to find his body and are presuming that he drowned. We will have more information as we receive it from Corozal Police.

Corozal Police and the search rescue had recovered the body of Valdemar Alpuche Jr., a Customs Officer, from the sea about an hour after he went under water on Sunday March 20, 2016.

witnesses saw, that around three twenty on Sunday afternoon Apluche was on a jet ski with his daughter, a minor, at the southern end of the Corozal Bay near Caribbean Tires when they were knocked off by a strong wave.

His daughter was the only one who had on a life jacket. Apluche didn’t and he went under water. Swift response  from onlookers saved the life of the young girl who was rushed to the Corozal Community Hospital and is reported to be out of danger.

According to police REPORT, Lewelyn Kelly tried to give assistances to Alpuche but he too experienced problems and had to be rescued from the water.