The body of a two-year-old girl, who wandered off while playing in her yard, was recovered from the Pomeroon River yesterday afternoon, two days after she fell into a canal some 50 feet from her home.
The police said Zevarah France was last seen alive around 10 am on Thursday by her mother, Samantha Layne, at their Charity Squatting Area, Essequibo Coast home.
A police source told Sunday Stabroek that Layne reported that she was doing chores in the lower flat of her house with France in her company. Several minutes after, she said she noticed France was missing and she immediately raised an alarm.
At the time, the mother and daughter were alone at home. A six-year-old later reportedly related to Layne that he saw when Zevarah fell into the canal.
A search party, which included divers, was subsequently deployed.
The dead child’s body was recovered around 4.30 pm yesterday at Grant Marlborough, Lower Pomeroon River, about three miles away from the scene.
It was observed that both her feet and a section of her face were eaten by fish.
A police investigation of the girl’s death is ongoing.
