Latest update April 28th, 2026 12:30 AM
Boy, 11, drowns in Demerara River
An 11-year-old boy drowned, at around 18:00 hrs yesterday, while swimming with a cousin in an abandoned, half-sunken vessel in the Demerara River near Riverview, Ruimveldt.
Brian Ibrahim, of Lot 31 Hill Street, Albouystown, was reportedly trapped at the bottom of the boat after plunging into a hole in the vessel.
Brian Ibrahim
The lad’s mother, Mona Lisa Ibrahim, said that she last saw her son alive at around 17:00 hrs, when she had told him to take a bath.
However, she said that Brian, whom she had often beaten for swimming, slipped away with a 14-year-old cousin and headed for the Riverview area.
The other lad told Kaieteur News that he had collected some salt fish from a man at Riverview and he had then suggested that they head for home.
However, he said, Brian plunged into a hole in the vessel and disappeared from view.
The boy said that after his cousin failed to surface, he immediately raised an alarm.
As fate would have it, Brian’s father was heading to Riverview to check on a boat when someone mistakenly informed him that his son had drowned.
He immediately dived into the same hole in the vessel and began to search for the missing lad.
The man said that eventually his leg brushed Brian’s head, and he brought the lad to shore and tried in vain to revive him.
Brian Ibrahim was then rushed to the Georgetown Hospital, where doctors also tried to resuscitate him before eventually pronouncing him dead.
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