As 13-year-old Steven Behar tried to retrieve a ball from the Lamaha Canal, he fell into the black water and was lifeless by the time a woman hauled him out.
Behar, of James Street, Albouystown, Georgetown, was a student of the North Ruimveldt Multilateral School. He usually visited the Sophia area, where the drowning occurred, to play football with other boys.
Behar’s uncle told this newspaper yesterday afternoon that persons who were present at the time told them he went to get the ball, which had fallen into the canal. “They say that he was walking over this pipe that run over de