A two-year-old child from Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo drowned after he fell into a trench on Saturday and disappeared into the Essequibo River. He had been left unattended.
His body washed ashore at the Philadelphia koker the following day.
A distraught Wahida Gansham, grandmother of the now dead Soomal Gansham, said that her son Sookdeo