Man drowns at highway creek

Dec 24, 2012 News

Police are seeking the identity of a man who drowned at around 17:00 hrs yesterday in a creek  on the Soesdyke/Linden highway.
The victim was pronounced dead on arrival at the Diamond Diagnostic Centre after he was pulled from the creek.
He is of East Indian descent, slim in build and has a tattoo of a male face on the right side of his of his chest.
This publication was told that the incident occurred at around 17:30 hours near the Aziza Akousa resort. Eyewitnesses told this publication that from all indications the man appeared to have been heavily intoxicated and was frolicking in the water.
“People say they see the man swimming round in the water and then a lil while after they just see he go under the water but they didn’t pay attention because they think he just dive, but after he aint raise up people start searching fuh he,” one eyewitness said.
However, a few minute later the man was pulled from the water and was frothing from his mouth and was unconscious.
The man was immediately rushed to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre where he was pronounced dead on arrival.