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Aug 06, 2009 News
The body of nine-year-old Keana Fraser who drowned tragically in the Atlantic off West Coast Berbice on Tuesday afternoon, was recovered early yesterday morning.
A team of searchers found the body on the foreshore at Britannia Village, West Coast Berbice, about a mile and half from Number 28 Village where she drowned while walking along the edge of the ocean during an outing on the beach with others.
The young girl’s mother, Anatassa Fraser, said she was found around 7:00 hours on the beach at Britannia, with her face buried in the roots of a courida tree and a large tree trunk across her back.
Searchers had looked in vain for her up to 22:00 hours Tuesday night before calling it off and resuming the search early yesterday morning.
Reports are that the girl and two others were walking along the shore when a huge wave hit them and swept them into an unexpectedly deep part of the ocean.
The two who were with her and who managed to scramble ashore said that the part of the beach where the tragedy occurred seemed to have been some sort of “suck sand” or quicksand since there had been no clear sign of danger prior to their sudden fall into the deep.
Keana Fraser who was a Grade Five student at the Number 29 Primary School is survived by two siblings, Monique Johnson, 19, and Kevana Fraser, 14, and her dad Kevin Fraser.
Her body is at the mortuary at the Fort Welling Cottage Hospital awaiting post mortem examination.
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