SWEDISH tourist Johan Andreas Johansson, 24, drowned on Monday after diving off a two-meter rock into a swimming hole in La Fortuna de San Carlos, in north-central Costa Rica, the daily La Nación reported.
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San Carlos police presume a current sucked the university student away and dragged him 500 meters down the river, where his body was found with injuries to the head and face, according to La Nación.
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That afternoon, two Canadian women, one British man and a U.S. man accompanied Johansson at the swimming hole.
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In an attempt to rescue Johansson, the U.S. citizen – Patrick Williams, 21, according to Hernán Ocampo, chief of emergency medicine at San Carlos Hospital – fractured his ankle and risked death himself, the daily reported. Johansson entered the country on Dec. 2 from Nicaragua while on holiday, and was staying at hotel Gringo Peters in La Fortuna, where he met Williams.
