Cuban Refugee Dies in Plunge Off Cliff
<i> Reuters</i>
WASHINGTON —
A Cuban refugee who wanted to cool off in the surf of Guantanamo Bay was killed Monday when he leaped 40 feet from a cliff, U.S. military sources said. The man, believed to be in his late 30s, left a hot, dusty tent city at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base along with other refugees. He jumped and struck rocks on a beach, said Army Maj. Rick Thomas, spokesman for the task force running the refugee camps. The death was the first since the camps opened in late August.
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