Family devastated as teen falls to death while trying to enter his cruise ship room from balcony

Laurent Mercer, 16, fell to his death at a port in Haiti as he tried to access his room from the balcony of an adjacent room on the eighth floor of a Royal Caribbean cruise ship

A 16-year-old boy who was attempting to climb into his room from the balcony of a cruise ship tripped and fell to his death last Friday.

In a statement to , Owen Torres, Royal Caribbean's corporate communications manager, confirmed the death saying, “We are saddened by the loss of one of our guests in a tragic accident.” However, Torres did not offer any further information on him.

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