Teen plunges to death

The body of 18-year-old Shawn Denzel Atkinson of Timehri was pulled from a canal late yesterday afternoon hours after he took a splash without even knowing how to swim. The canal is located opposite the Barama Complex where the young man only began working recently and was taking part in a fun day.

The teen was at the time playing a game of cricket with his friends when he decided to plunge after a ball and attempted to swim and never resurfaced. It would be his struggles in the water that caused his friends to realise that the young man was not a swimmer.
A friend, who was with the teen who recently began working at Barama, related to this publication that he was standing next to a friend when he overheard Atkinson enquiring from another person if the canal was deep. The young man said that seconds after he heard a splash after Atkinson had taken the plunge.
He looked and observed that the teenager was having difficulty staying afloat and jumped behind him trying to save him. However, the young man related that he had to abort his rescue plan since the teenager was fighting up so badly that had the rescuer held on to him, both of them could have drowned.
Persons used implements from the Barama compound as they tried desperately to locate the body of the man and even an excavator was used to assist in clearing the canal as they sought to get a clearer path to search.
Also, personnel from the Guyana Defence Force Coast Guard Unit turned up at the location and began guiding the persons who were searching for the individual.
Written By Leroy Smith

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