Punta Cana — Another tourist who was missing on Arena Gorda beach in Punta Cana, La Altagracia province, was found dead on Friday. With the discovery, there are three deaths from drowning.
The Department of Risk and Disaster Management report of the Mayor’s Office of Verón municipality details that another foreigner is missing, and one has been admitted to a health center in that town.
The tourists were staying at the Hotel Riu at the time of the event. The deceased were identified as Marcin Teodor Checinski, 47, Sylwia Aleksandra, 52, of Polish nationality, and Nelzon Nuñes Ribeiro, 67, of Portuguese nationality.
The missing is the Polish Jakub Tomasz Pedziach, while the hospitalized responds to the name of Radoslaw Marcin, of Russian nationality.
Units of the Verón Fire Department are at the scene, and they are maintaining the search for the Pole in coordination with the Dominican Republic Navy, Politur, and the National Police.
The abnormal waves of the Atlantic coastal area swept away the deceased. Following the recommendations of the Dominican Institute of Meteorology (Indomet), the Directorate of the Emergency Operations Center (COE) has restricted the coastal perimeter.
Official information will be provided as more details about the event are gathered. For the time being, however, the Department of Risk and Disaster Management said all the information provided should be considered preliminary.
The entity indicated that it “continues to monitor the situation and work together with local and national authorities to guarantee the safety and well-being of the population.”