RAD­HI­CA DE SIL­VA

rad­hi­ca.sookraj@guardian.co.tt

While his fa­ther worked near­by, a four-year-old tod­dler, left in the care of his grand­moth­er, fell in­to a swim­ming pool in Rio Claro and drowned on Sun­day.

Po­lice said around 4:30 pm, Shi­va Canya, of Pasea Vil­lage, Tu­na­puna was at the home of his pa­ter­nal grand­moth­er Chooni Sama­roo, 67 of 222 Ridge Road, San Pe­dro Vil­lage, Poole when the tragedy oc­curred.

Sama­roo told po­lice she was watch­ing Canya when with­out her notic­ing, he slipped away. 

When she re­alised he was miss­ing, she fran­ti­cal­ly start­ed to check around the house for him. She called out to him but he did not an­swer. She then called her son Ajay, 24, who was work­ing near­by at the home of their next-door neigh­bour Lochan Heer­alal.

Ajay quick­ly stopped his work and be­gan look­ing for his son. Mo­ments lat­er he saw the tod­dler’s body float­ing in Heer­alal’s swim­ming pool. Ajay picked up the un­con­scious child and quick­ly rushed him to the Rio Claro Health fa­cil­i­ty where he was pro­nounced dead by Dr Rao.

A par­ty of of­fi­cers led by WPC Sim­mons went to the Rio Claro health cen­tre where they saw the child.

There were no marks of vi­o­lence on his body. An au­top­sy is ex­pect­ed to be done to­day.

WPC Sim­mons is con­tin­u­ing in­ves­ti­ga­tions.