A 38-year epileptic man, Harry Doobay, of Lima Housing Scheme on the Essequibo Coast, was discovered Saturday around 11:00 hrs in two feet of flood waters in his yard. A neighbour of the deceased, Mr. Frank Stoby, said his wife, was doing some work on her curtains and windows when she noticed something like clothes floating in the flood waters in her neighbour Doobay’s yard.
According to Stoby, his wife quickly got his attention and he rushed over to check on the floating clothes. He said he was shocked when he discovered it was Harry submerged under some two feet of water in a helpless condition, with only his jersey showing. Stoby said he quickly called for help and lifted the lifeless man out of the water and placed his body on a bench. The man was said to be dead already.
Reports said the man, who was not married, was home alone and probably fell into the floodwaters after suffering an attack of epilepsy while going to the wash room downstairs. Mother of the man, Parbattie Doobay, known as Seera, said she was at her brother’s house when she received a telephone call saying her son fell down and was sick. The mother said she hurried home only to see several neibhbours and wanted to know what had happened to her son. She said, with tears, that she saw her son covered under a sheet and was told that he drowned in the flood waters. The grieving mother said she left her son in good spirits, and he was not sick. But he suffered from epilepsy.
The woman said Harry was her second son and will be missed dearly. The woman said her first son died by accident some 13 years ago. She also lost her husband several years ago.