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Two boys suspected drowned in Diwali day swim
– Bodies unrecovered
Two boys, both aged 13, are suspected to have drowned yesterday after they took off swimming with
Devindra Mohabir
another boy in the Demerara River without the knowledge of their parents.
One of the boys, Renaldo Henry, was in fact a runaway lad from Georgetown since Monday. He is said to have lured the other two to go swimming with him.
Neighbours are blaming the Police for failing to come to the mother’s rescue when she tried to get her son to return home.
The other boy who is suspected to have drowned is Devindra Mohabir, 13, of Grove, East Bank Demerara.
Their bodies were unrecovered up to press time.
Mohabir’s mother was preparing to light diyas on Diwali Night when she received news about what had happened from the third boy who had joined the others in swimming.
Reports are that Henry left his Alberttown, Georgetown home Monday, purportedly to go to school sports, but visited Grove, where his father lived.
Residents of Grove said that he had in his possession as much as $100,000 which he was splurging on his friends. Henry is said to have been living in Grove before his parents separated.
His relatives declined to speak with Kaieteur News last evening.
Henry and his friends visited a game shop in Grove on Monday, and on Tuesday he was found to be still in the village. One resident said she found him sleeping in an abandoned house.
On Tuesday, the mother is said to have visited the village and sought the assistance of the Police in locating her son, but residents said the Police withheld assistance.
On Tuesday, a resident said she encouraged Henry to return home and she saw him join a bus.
Relatives comfort Renaldo Henry’s mother after she collapses outside the Grove Police Station.
However, yesterday morning, she found him lying near her stand. Henry, she said, was in the company of other boys who had joined him to go to the game shop.
But since it was a holiday yesterday, the shop was closed. The resident said that she chided the boys for ganging up so early in the morning.
She said a few of them broke off from the group, including one of Mohabir’s younger brothers.
However, three of them headed off to the Demerara River to swim.
The third boy in question was assisting Police with investigations. He is reported to have told Police that the three of them were swimming when Henry started to be pulled away by the water. He recounted that as Henry struggled he held on to Mohabir and both of them disappeared.
Around 18:30 hrs last evening, he reached Mohabir’s home to tell his parents what had happened.
Mrs Mohabir said that Devindra left home in the morning to join his friends after helping her clean the yard in preparation for the Diwali celebrations.
She said she didn’t get worried that something might have gone amiss when she did not see him return after a while.
The father, Mr Mohabir, said that after he returned home from work he asked for Devindra, and it is then that they commenced a search for him.
The Police and relatives are expected to mount a search today to recover the bodies.
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