{"id":493546,"date":"2025-12-04T19:38:24","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.net\/en\/uncategorized\/french-citizen-dies-on-excursion-to-pico-duarte-authorities-deepen-investigation\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T19:39:33","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T23:39:33","slug":"french-citizen-dies-on-excursion-to-pico-duarte-authorities-deepen-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/dominican-news\/french-citizen-dies-on-excursion-to-pico-duarte-authorities-deepen-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"French citizen dies on excursion to Pico Duarte: authorities deepen investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"Jarabacoa<\/strong>. \u2013 A French tourist lost his life on the afternoon of this Wednesday during an excursion to Pico Duarte via the Manabao route, in circumstances that are still under investigation by the authorities.\n\nThe deceased was identified as Davili Daniel, 72 years old, who was part of a group of 11 foreigners guided by Frankely Rosa Peralta, a resident of La Ci\u00e9nega de Manabao. The expedition began at 7:17 in the morning, but around 11:30 a.m., while crossing the area known as La Laguna, the hiker presented physical discomfort.\n\nAfter reporting that he felt weak, the group decided to put him on a pack mule to facilitate his transfer. However, minutes later he lost consciousness and, according to the guide, when placed back on the ground he showed signs of cyanosis on his face, dying practically instantly. Companions of the tour reported that the foreigner suffered from heart conditions.\n\nAt 4:20 p.m., in the Arraij\u00e1n La Ci\u00e9nega sector, personnel from the Criminal Investigations and Interpol Division of the National Police, headed by Major Jos\u00e9 A. Osoria Leonardo and Captain Rivas Pe\u00f1a Luis, along with the Public Ministry represented by prosecutor David Barrera, and the medical examiner Rafael Dom\u00ednguez, proceeded to the removal of the body.\n\nThe preliminary diagnosis points to a myocardial infarction, although the body is pending an autopsy to confirm the cause of death. An iPhone cell phone and RD$7,000 in cash were seized in the review, which were placed under the custody of the Public Ministry.\n\n\n
You can also read: Environment in collaboration with Centro Cuesta Nacional promotes conservation of Pico Duarte | De \u00daltimo Minuto<\/a><\/strong><\/h6>\n\n\nThe body was transferred to the morgue of the Octavia Gautier de Vidal Municipal Hospital, where technicians from the Scientific Police, led by Sergeant Major Luis Alberto Encarnaci\u00f3n Martez, took fingerprints for the formal identification process. The body will be sent on the morning of December 4 to the INACIF of Santiago.\n\nJarabacoa authorities reported that they will expand on the details as investigations progress into this unfortunate event that occurred on the route to the highest peak in the Caribbean.\n\n\n

BY: SALVADOR J.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jarabacoa. \u2013 A French tourist lost his life on the afternoon of this Wednesday during an excursion to Pico Duarte via the Manabao route, in circumstances that are still under investigation by the authorities. The deceased was identified as Davili Daniel, 72 years old, who was part of a group of 11 foreigners guided by […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":133543,"featured_media":493550,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[40216],"tags":[18517],"class_list":["post-493546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dominican-news","tag-pico-duarte"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/phj1q1-24oq","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-04-at-4.45.36-PM-1.jpeg","dum_api":{"author_name":"Carolina \u00c1lvarez","author_image":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cropped-WhatsApp-Image-2026-05-26-at-5.31.57-PM-96x96.jpeg","categories_name":["Dominican News"],"featured_media_url":"https:\/\/cdn.deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2025\/12\/WhatsApp-Image-2025-12-04-at-4.45.36-PM-1.jpeg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/133543"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deultimominuto.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}