A third year medical student of the University of Guyana yesterday afternoon drowned during an outing with friends at St. Ignatius, central Rupununi.
The deceased is twenty-four-year-old Kimberlee Yow of St. Ignatius Village. Yow, who could not swim was yesterday afternoon picked up from her home by friends and they headed to a creek situated at the back of the village where the incident occurred.
When this newspaper contacted an older sister of the deceased, Delilah Prudencio, she said Yow was picked up by friends around 3pm. Yow could not say when exactly her sister drowned but recalled getting a call shortly after 6pm last evening.
