Police probe drowning of children at Melanie/Enterprise

Police are investigating the alleged drowning of two children on Tuesday morning along the Melanie Damishana/Enterprise Access Road, East Coast Demerara.

Dead are Jadon De Courte, 10, and Tianna De Courte, 8, both pupils of Melanie Damishana, police said.

Tianna De Courte
Preliminary investigations indicate that around 8:00 a.m., the children left their home with their mother and were in the area when they reportedly wandered away.
At about 11:05 a.m., police received information that two children had been found motionless in a trench at Melanie/Enterprise. The mother was alerted and subsequently identified the bodies as those of her children.
Emergency Medical Technicians responded and pronounced both children dead at the scene. Police said no marks of violence were observed on the bodies.