A man filming the sunrise near a dune on the beaches of Hutchinson Island, off the east coast of Florida (
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), He died following being buried in the sand that collapsed on him, reported this Tuesday, August 9, at the Martin County Sheriff’s Office.
The 35-year-old man from the city of Stuart, whose identity has not been released, was recording a video of the sunrise on that barrier of two islands on the east coast when, presumably, “a sand dune collapsed on him” and He suffocated to death, authorities said in a statement.
It was a bather who early Monday morning “noticed that a part of the victim’s body was protruding from the sand and called for help,” they said.
The detectives in charge of the investigation rule out that it was a crime and everything indicates that “the victim was taking a video of the sunrise under a dune” when it collapsed and he was buried in the sand, the sheriff’s office said.
Although the results of the coroner’s toxicology tests are still awaited, “the results are not likely to change the circumstances” of a “tragic accident.”
