A 16 boy died after falling from balcony of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship docked in Haiti last week.
According to witnesses...The teenage boy slipped off when he was trying to enter his room on Royal Caribbean's Harmony of the Seas cruise ship through a nearby balcony last Friday.
Royal Caribbean did not explain in details about the death, but its corporate communications manager Owen Torres, confirmed that there'd been a tragedy on board.
In a statement. Owen Torres shows his condolence about the tragedy. "We are saddened by the loss of one of our guests in a tragic accident". The Bro-ward Medical Examiner's Office identified the victim as Laurent Mercer of the Wallis and Futuna Islands, a French island collectivist in the South Pacific.
Mercer was in the middle of a seven-day Caribbean trip with his family when the accident occurred, according to the Sun Sentinel.
"The ship's medical team responded to the pier and attempted CPR, but the [boy] had sustained major head trauma and he was pronounced dead," at 11:42 a.m., the Bro-ward Medical Examiner's Office said, according to the Sun Sentinel.
The ship departed from Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and was docked in Labadee, Haiti, where Royal Caribbean owns a private resort.
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