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Tourist disputes police account of how diver died in Negril
1:06 pm, Fri May 30, 2014
A rocky section of the Negril coastline - file photo(1 of 1)
A tourist is disputing the Jamaican police's report of how a Canadian vacationer jumped off a cliff and died in Negril on Tuesday.
Duane Cook, a Canadian, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that he saw when 26 year-old Taylor Rankin jumped off the cliff.
On Tuesday, the police reported that Rankine jumped from the cliff into the sea and received injuries and later died at hospital. Local police said Rankin collided into rocks after he jumped off the cliff. However, Cook, who claimed he had witnessed the rescue opeations, reported that days before the vacationer's death, he made the same jump as Rankin three times, and claimed that there were no rocks to hit.
He speculated that the impact from the ten-metre jump into water caus
1:06 pm, Fri May 30, 2014
A rocky section of the Negril coastline - file photo(1 of 1)
A tourist is disputing the Jamaican police's report of how a Canadian vacationer jumped off a cliff and died in Negril on Tuesday.
Duane Cook, a Canadian, told the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) that he saw when 26 year-old Taylor Rankin jumped off the cliff.
On Tuesday, the police reported that Rankine jumped from the cliff into the sea and received injuries and later died at hospital. Local police said Rankin collided into rocks after he jumped off the cliff. However, Cook, who claimed he had witnessed the rescue opeations, reported that days before the vacationer's death, he made the same jump as Rankin three times, and claimed that there were no rocks to hit.
He speculated that the impact from the ten-metre jump into water caus