Essequibo Coast toddler, farmer drown

A family of Charity Squatting Area in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam) is mourning the death of their three-year-old daughter, who allegedly drowned in a four-gallon bucket of water.
Dead is Sitana Alexander of Charity.
Mother of the child, Vanessa Alexander told Police at about 10:53h on Friday, she left the toddler in the house and went outside to do laundry. She said that upon returning, she realised that the child was not in the house and begun searching for her. However, the mother confronted her worst fear when she found the child motionless in a four-gallon bucket of water.
The child was removed from the bucket of water and rushed to the Oscar Joseph District Hospital, Charity, where she was pronounced dead on arrival. The body is presently at the Suddie Public Hospital, awaiting a post-mortem examination.
Meanwhile, also on Friday on the Essequibo Coast, the body of 48-year-old Rajanauth Daljit was fished out of a trench at New Road village.
Reports are at about 17:00h, the labourer of Lot 32, New Road, Essequibo Coast, was spotted in the trench.
Karran Koomar, a farmer and friend of the now dead man, told Guyana Times that he left Daljit washing some paddy bags at the trench. He said that when he returned, he didn’t see Daljit. Upon searching, he discovered the labourer’s lifeless body floating in the trench face down. An alarm was raised and neighbours and relatives rushed to the scene.
According to residents, Daljit was an alcoholic, who lived alone and suffered from epilepsy.
The body was removed from the trench and the police were notified of the incident.
The body was taken to the Oscar Joseph District Hospital, where the labourer was pronounced dead.
Investigations are ongoing.