Thursday, July 02, 2015. Flora Pereira Reporting: The dead body that San Ignacio Police discovered yesterday afternoon on Bullet Tree Road is of 58 year old Pedro Garcia, a Guatemalan National from the village of Arenal in the Cayo District.
According to police reports, sometime after 3pm on Wednesday, they visited an area known as the Lynette Perdomo layout on Bullet Tree Road (near the San Ignacio Community Hospital) where they found Garcia’s body with multiple chop wounds on the face, hands, head and neck area.
His body was immediately transported to the San Ignacio Community Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
Garcia’s body now awaits a postmortem examination.
Police investigations continue.