Four Year Old Drowned

And in other unfortunate news, 4-year-old Christy Hernandez from Billy White Village in the Cayo District drowned yesterday in a pond near her home.

It happened sometime before 3:00 p.m. when the child's mother Lina Klassen noticed that Cristy was missing. She desperately searched the house and property but could not find the child. Finally she and down to the nearby pond where she found her daughter floating motionless. The 4-year-old was rushed to the Regional Western Hospital but was declared dead on arrival.