Ten year old drowns while swimming in New River
Isabel Cowo isn’t the only Orange Walk mother to have lost a son over the weekend as on Saturday afternoon a family outing to the New River ended in tragedy. According to thirty-seven year old Palmar villager Martha Casares, she and her three children were swimming in the Rio Aventura area. But she says when her son Christian jumped into the water, he did not resurface. Other bathers searched the waters for the boy but by the time they found him and pulled him on shore to resuscitate him it was too late. A post mortem examination on the ten year old has since determined the child drowned.
