The sudden death of a sixteen-year-old East Canje girl shook the county of Berbice on Saturday, as relatives and friends are still at a loss as to what could have triggered the teen’s action.
Marissa Singh, of Lot 3 Number 2 Village, died after consuming pills. After the discovery was made around 3:30 pm, the secondary school student was rushed to the New Amsterdam Public Hospital where doctors worked tirelessly for hours but were unsuccessful in saving her. Stabroek New was reliably informed that the teen, who lived with her grandmother, stepbrother and stepsister, had been depressed since her mother died in a fire in Vryman’s Erven, New Amsterdam, during 2013.
Inez, Singh’s grandmother, told, Stabroek News, that the discovery was made after she noticed, that Singh was not around the house, like she normally would be. The woman, who could not stop her tears from flowing, as she spoke to reporters, said, “I was in the backyard and then we run come upstairs and she door was lock…But she sister jump over the wall and open the door and then we see she lay down”.
A post-mortem examination is expected to be carried out today.
Singh leaves to mourn her grandmother, other relatives and many friends.
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