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Toddler drowns in De Kenderen trench
The toddler’s father Mark Glen holding the bottle and the piece of string which led them to his son’s body.
Residents of Old Road De Kenderen, West Coast Demerara, were thrown into deep mourning yesterday after a toddler from the area was fished out of a canal.
Four-year-old Toney Mark Glen, was pronounced dead on arrival at the West Demerara Regional Hospital around 15:00 hours yesterday.
The toddler’s mother, Anganie Sugrim, said that her son returned from school at 12:20 hours, yesterday, and retired to bed some time later.
“He tek off he clothes and me ask he if he want food. He tell me no. So me go and sleep and he lay down too,” Sugrim said. She said that some time later a younger sibling came to her and told her that Toney was sleeping.
“I get up fuh check but me ain’t see he in de house so me start looking fuh he. I call and call but he ain’t answer,” the distraught woman related.
She added that while searching she noticed a bottle with a string tied to it floating in a trench in front of their yard. She said that she began to worry. “Me see de string but me aint see de end ah de string…so me ask one ah dem boy to jump in de trench and he pull he up.”
By that time the woman said her son appeared to be dead. The child who attends the Meten-Meer-Zorg nursery school was taken to the Leonora Cottage Hospital where he was pronounced dead on arrival.
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