Guyanese teen drowns during school trip to Canadian park

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Jeremiah Perry, 15, who drowned earlier this week during a camping trip to a park in Ontario.
Jeremiah Perry, 15, who drowned earlier this week during a camping trip to a park in Ontario.

A summer school trip to a Canadian park ended in tragedy as a 15-year-old Guyanese-born student, Jeremiah Perry, drowned.

Perry’s body was recovered from the lake of Algonquin Provincial Park in Ontario, Canada on Wednesday.

Canadian media house CablePulse 24 (CP24) reported that around 8 pm on Tuesday, Perry was swimming in the Big Trout Lake. He went under and did not resurface. His body was not discovered until 3.25 pm the next day.