A two-year-old girl, Samirah Evans, of Kabakaburi Mission, Upper Pomeroon River, drowned on Saturday.
The incident occurred between 12:30 hours and 17:30 hours in the Mission.
According to the child’s mother, Shenella Jacobus, she was washing clothes at the back of their house when Samirah began to cry. She went to breastfeed the girl, after which she returned to continue washing the clothes, leaving the toddler in the kitchen area of the house.
Jacobus further told the police that she was hanging out the clothes in her yard, and she called out for Samirah, but did not get any response. The woman related that she searched the kitchen and other areas around the house but did not find the girl.
She then went to the landing area, which is about 300 feet away from the home, and saw the underwear which Samirah was wearing on the landing.
The woman raised an alarm, and relatives, along with persons from the community, joined in carrying out a search, but were futile.
Later that day, a team of police officers from the Charity Police Station district were in the Pomeroon River and joined the search party, checking the landing area, around the premises and nearby trenches.
Then, at about 17:30h, Simirah’s body was found floating in the vicinity of Warapana, Upper Pomeroon River, approximately one mile away from the Kabakaburi Mission landing. The discovery was made by a resident of Warapana, who had joined the search party.
The girl’s body, which was clad in a diaper, was taken to Charity Farmers’ wharf, where the police observed signs of suspected fish bites on her right foot and face.
The body was then escorted to Oscar Joseph Public Hospital (Charity Cottage Hospital), where she was officially pronounced dead by a doctor on duty and is currently at the mortuary, awaiting a post-mortem examination.
Investigation on going.
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