Woman, baby perish in Kairuni accident

The bus in the Kairuni Creek

A twenty-three-year-old mother of two and a six-week-old baby died after an accident on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway yesterday.

Anastasia Cole of Ituni was pronounced dead on arrival at the Linden Hospital Complex after the vehicle she was travelling in landed in the Kairuni Creek and was partially submerged. Cole’s death is suspected to have been caused by drowning. The body of the baby, Taqayah Shepherd, was subsequently discovered by police and taken  to the Linden Hospital Complex. The baby’s parents, Seon Shepherd and Tinesha Victor,