On Sunday afternoon, a Canadian tourist drowned while bathing on the beach of the Costa Caribe hotel in San Pedro de Macorís, where he had been staying since Saturday. Marier Pierre, a 73-year-old Canadian national, was dragged by the currents of the Caribbean Sea.
His wife, Lucie Royer, also a Canadian national, identified him. They were scheduled to leave the country on April 8. Hotel security members alerted the authorities, and the tourist’s corpse was sent to the National Institute of Forensic Sciences (INACIF) in San Pedro de Macorís for autopsy.