U.S. tourist killed in Guatemala

Robbers with machetes hacked a U.S. tourist to death and seriously wounded his wife aboard the couple's sailboat in northeastern Guatemala, the woman said Sunday.

In a telephone interview from her hospital bed, Nancy Dryden, 67, said her husband, Daniel Perry Dryden, 66, was killed by four men who boarded their boat late Saturday while it was anchored in Lake Izabal, reports the Associated Press.

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-- Deborah Bonello in Mexico City

Comments

[TrapStar]

Guatemala is a beautiful and cultural place and when i went there my money and my mp3 was stolen, but that will not effect the way i think about this place.

[wilbur]

I have spent alot of time over the past 25 years in Guatemala. I have always been told that the area this couple was in is a high crime area,and thats not to say that all of the country is. There are some safe areas of guatemala.Its not a area I would go to looking like I had money.People see the boat and the first thing they think is easy money.