5-year-old boy drowns in Pangasinan fishpond
STA. BARBARA, Pangasinan — A five-year-old boy died from drowning in a fishpond at a farm in Barangay Gueguesangen in the Pangasinan town of Santa Barbara on Sunday evening.
Police said the victim was brought to the Region I Medical Center in Dagupan City after he was retrieved from the fishpond. But the attending physician declared the boy dead on arrival.
The victim’s 31-year-old aunt, Kris Aquino Desear, 31, said she had just bathed the child at around 5:10 p.m. and left him near a fishpond outside the bathroom while she took a bath and changed clothes.
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She was packing their belongings at a table when she noticed that the child was missing. She searched for him and found one of his slippers near the fishpond.
Roldan Cruzado Palaylay, 28, who was accompanying the child, immediately jumped into the pond to search for him.
The aunt told police that the child had wanted to swim even after she had bathed him. She believed that he had entered the fishpond to swim and subsequently drowned.
Sta. Barbara Municipal Police Station is investigating the case./coa
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