Archive for May 4th, 2009
Monday, May 4th, 2009
Costa Rican emergency-services authorities said on Saturday that they have found the remains of a helicopter that crashed in the mountains near Cerro Chirripo, the highest peak in the country.
On board the private helicopter that crashed on Friday, according to official sources, were a Costa Rican pilot identified as Edgar Arguedas and apparently a Mexican citizen who has not yet been identified.
A spokesman for the Red Cross said Saturday on local television that another helicopter managed to find the site of the accident, but could see no signs of life in the surrounding area. (more…)
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
Police confiscated more than 1,560 kilos (3,436 lbs) of cocaine found inside a truck in this capital and arrested a Colombian and a Costa Rican as suspects, Costa Rica’s Security Ministry said Friday.
The drugs were being transported in a truck that was intercepted by police Thursday on a road in Colima de Tibas, a district on the northern outskirts of San Jose, the ministry said in a statement.
Two men, a Colombian and a Costa Rican who were traveling inside the vehicle and have been turned over to prosecutors, were arrested in the case. They are accused of international drug trafficking, a crime punishable in Costa Rica by between eight and 15 years in prison.
The authorities said the drug seizure was carried out thanks to an anonymous tip.
Also on Thursday, Costa Rican authorities seized another shipment containing 837 kilos (1,843 lbs) of cocaine along the border with Nicaragua. The drugs had been hidden in a tanker truck that was transporting ammonia.
Police arrested the driver of the truck, identified as a 46-year-old Costa Rican man who was trying to cross the border into Nicaragua.
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Monday, May 4th, 2009
Costa Rican Health Ministry on Friday ruled out 125 cases of A/H1N1 flu after further lab tests.
Health Minister Maria Luisa Avila told Xinhua that there were still 53 samples of suspected cases to be analyzed, and among them two were “highly possible” cases.
“The Centers for Disease Control from the U.S. (CDC) told us that the results could be ready in the coming 48 hours,” Avila said.
Avila said the health authorities were on around-the-clock alert for new possible cases of the lethal flu in Costa Rica, adding that the country has bought more than 50,000 anti-virals to counteract the virus.
According to the World Health Organization, Costa Rica has two suspected cases of the flu.
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