PALMETTO, Fla. (AP) - A Peace Corps volunteer from Florida’s Gulf Coast died of unknown causes in Tanzania.
The Bradenton Herald reports (https://bit.ly/1D0MUXz) that 29-year-old David Ripley died Tuesday.
According to a Peace Corps statement, Ripley was a trained paramedic assigned to work in Rwanda. He was visiting Tanzania when he died.
Ripley was working in a community health center and reading books to children regularly at the Kigali Reading Center.
Prior to his volunteer work with the Peace Corps, Ripley worked as a charge paramedic after graduating cum laude from St. Petersburg College and earning certifications as a paramedic and a firefighter. Family members in Florida said Ripley worked as a paramedic in Tallahassee and later in St. Petersburg.
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Information from: The Bradenton (Fla.) Herald , https://www.bradenton.com
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