A teenaged boy who was unconscious up to press time last evening after the taxi he was in plunged into the Sussex Street Canal in the vicinity of Cemetery Road has passed away, police said this morning.
The accident sparking a protest last evening in which residents blocked the roadway and burned tyres.
Elbert Thom, 16, of Lot 181 Grove Housing Scheme was trapped beneath the water’s surface for several minutes as residents struggled to free him. His mother Alma Thom
