Moments of inattention as she worried over the ill-health of her youngest child on Saturday cost Elizabeth Francis dearly, as her two eldest slipped away to a nearby canal to bathe and drowned.
Dead are nine-year-old Melissa Torres and five-year-old brother Miron Torres of Parika Back, East Bank Essequibo. According to their mother, the two children went missing around 6 pm and their bodies were discovered about an hour later in a nearby canal.
The incident which left the family in despair occurred after the two children left their home to bathe at the canal without their parents’ knowledge. Francis said she was