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I really could not believe this but last friday when i read the news i had the feeling that this angel was dead..May he R.I.P I really hope that his family find out what really happened to him
The body of eight-year-old Daniel Guerra, who went missing near his home in Gasparillo last Friday, was found floating in a river off the Tarouba Link Road, San Fernando yesterday.
Daniel’s tiny body was showing signs of decomposition and police investigators said it was difficult to see any visible signs of violence.
Daniel, a standard two student of the Gasparillo Government Primary School, was last seen entering a vehicle at about midday near his home at Bedeau Street, Gasparillo last Friday.
Shortly before he disappeared, Daniel went to buy a drink at Sony’s Parlour near his home.
He was found with the clothes he was last seen wearing, a red short pants and white vest, but without any shoes.
Police report that at about 5 pm yesterday, a passenger in a maxi taxi proceeding along the Tarouba Link Road, raised an alarm when she spotted a body entangled in vines in the muddy river water. Police officers, who had been carrying out searches for Daniel nearby, were called to the scene.
At the same time, a cricket match was in progress at the Tarouba grounds.
Cricketer Rakesh Sookdeo said he left the grounds when the alarm was raised that a body had been found in the river.
“I saw the head of this little boy in the water and police officers and other men were trying to get the body on to the bank,†said Sookdeo. He helped by using a rope to lasso one of the child’s hands and the body was pulled out of the river.
Daniel, who lived with his grandparents Shirley and Randolph Indarsingh and his mother Rona, did not attend classes last Friday due to a head injury he sustained while playing. “He had left home just to buy a drink and after twenty minutes he never showed up. I became very worried,†Shirley told Newsday at the family’s home hours before her grandson’s body was discovered. “He begged me clasping his hands together, ‘Ma please let me go for the drink,’ and I let him go with the $20 his mother left for him before she went to work. And my baby never came back,†she cried. The owner of the shop said Daniel had purchased the drink and was heading to his home.