| An eight- year old boy, Emmanuel Welch, drowned in an underground reservoir while playing near a sand pit at Sheet Anchor, East Canje, Berbice.His foster mother,Houston Astros Josh Reddick Jersey, Nadira Toolsie, said she had returned from work just after 16:00 hrs but did not see him at home.She enquired and was told that he was playing with friends.Dead: Emmanuel Welch“Me asked my grandchildren and they told me he was at my daughter’s home across the road”. However, upon checking with her daughter, she was told that the boy had left a while ago, “and they didn’t know where he gone”.“So after that, I sent my grandson to look for he and he left and go back at the sand pit and whilst going there, another little boy run come and told me that he (Emmanuel) fall in a tank, so I asked him how he fell in the tank”.The woman then ran to the scene,Daryl Johnston Cowboys Throwback Jersey, which was a few houses away,Brett Favre Packers Jersey, “but somebody tell me he already died so I keep running going and when I reached,John Brooks Jersey, I see he …the water was clear do I could see at the bottom”.Toolsie stated that the children were playing, “but them (the village children) said that them ain’t know when he missing from them”.“He don’t normally go there; this is the first time ever I heard he go there, so I don’t know how really he ended up there”, she stated. The children,Douglas Barcelona Jersey, when questioned, replied that they did not know what happened, “but they probably finished playing and ready to come home when it happened”.She described her foster son as “a very loving child”“When I go anywhere, he does run come and reach me and before he go to school in the morning, he does always got to come and tell me ‘bye- bye’”, the woman said while breaking down in tears.Kaieteur News was told that the victim’s mother was of unsound mind and died two years ago and Toolsie started to care for him since he was a year old.The whereabouts of the father are unknown.“They were going to give him away and take him to the orphanage but I took him and ‘mind’ him from one- year baby—it real hard,Tim Howard Jersey, because he is the only company I does get with me in the house”, the sorrowful woman said.The uncovered reservoirThe concrete reservoir, in which the boy drowned, is located in a compound adjacent to a building that was formerly occupied by the Ministry of Public Works.The compound is now managed by a popular New Amsterdam firm that sells sand. There was no guard at the gate when this newspaper visited yesterday. Also, the reservoir had no cover. |
