The police are investigating the murder of a female toddler, whose mutilated body was found floating in a canal at Crane Squatting Area, West Coast Demerara (WCD) yesterday morning.
The identity and age of the toddler remained unknown up to press time.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF), in a brief statement yesterday, said that the child’s body was found facing upward. Her left hand was missing.
The toddler’s body was taken to the West Demerara Regional Hospital, where she was officially pronounced dead.
When Sunday Stabroek visited the area yesterday, residents said they only learnt of the discovery of the body yesterday morning.
They were in shock at the gruesome discovery. “Whoever is responsible should pay for it,” an angry resident told this newspaper.
Another said that the toddler was not likely the child of anyone in the area.
The body of the toddler is at the Ezekiel Funeral Parlour awaiting a post-mortem examination.
