The National Sea Rescue Institute (NSRI) reported that a 10-year-old girl has drowned at Strand Beach after she went missing in the surf zone on Saturday, January 1.
According to the NSRI’s Gordons Bay station commander, Alan Meiklejohn when rescue services arrived on the scene, the sea rescue craft searched in the direction of sea currents after a resident in a block of flats opposite Strand Beach reported the girl in the water. This was a distance away from where she had reportedly originally been swimming.
Meiklejohn said the sea rescue craft was then nearing that area at the time and the NSRI crew spotted the girl’s lifeless body in the water.
“She was recovered onto the sea rescue craft and brought to paramedics on the shore where sadly she was declared deceased.
“The body of the girl has been taken into the care of WC Government Health Forensic Pathology Services,” Meiklejohn said.
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