Little Bonaire (Klein Bonaire) : --- Authorities in Bonaire are investigating the circumstances of why a small aircraft fell in the vicinity of Little Bonaire. According to information, reaching SMN News a small aircraft fell in Bonaire sometime after 9 pm on Tuesday night. Officer Junior Lopez in an interview with SMN News said police received several phone calls from residents who said they saw a fireball and heard a loud noise in the area. Lopez said when they received the information they immediately requested help from the coast guard. Lopez said authorities reached the scene about 10:20 pm and they managed to recover a dead body. Lopez further explained they were told that someone was screaming in the area and they continued the search, which revealed two bales of cocaine. The search he said continued on Wednesday morning and police along with the coast guard found another body and 12 other larges packages of cocaine. Lopez said that so far police recovered some 14 packages of cocaine weighing 410 Kilos; police also recovered a very small part of the aircraft.
The officer said that so far police has no clue as to where the aircraft was coming from; neither do they know where it was heading. Police is yet to identify the two bodies that were found.
According to Lopez the investigation is continuing.
