By Felipe V. Celino
ROXAS CITY, Capiz – A three-year-old girl drowned to her death in a river at Barangay Magubilan, Panay, Capiz Monday afternoon.
Investigation by Police Corporal Jesmar Barredo, Panay Municipal Police Station investigator, indicated that the victim’s mother may have lost track of the child while on their way to the house of a relative that afternoon.
Barredo said the mother assumed that her daughter may have gone home ahead of her.
But she was shocked when somebody informed her that her daughter got drowned. The victim was taken to Bailan District Hospital in Pontevedra town where she was declared dead on arrival.
