Grena­da po­lice con­firmed on Wednes­day that the body of a woman had been dis­cov­ered in a ve­hi­cle that had been swept away by floods caused by ex­ces­sive rain­fall on the is­land on Tues­day.

Head of the Com­mu­ni­ty Re­la­tions De­part­ment, In­spec­tor Mau­reen John, said that of­fi­cers are now in­ves­ti­gat­ing the mat­ter to de­ter­mine whether the woman had been a vic­tim of the floods.  He said po­lice are un­able to con­firm that her death was di­rect­ly re­lat­ed to the flood­ing.

The Met Of­fice at the Mau­rice Bish­op In­ter­na­tion­al Air­port said that 69 mil­lime­tres of rain had been record­ed dur­ing the six-hour pe­ri­od on Tues­day and that it is equiv­a­lent to one month’s rain­fall.

Grena­da has been ex­pe­ri­enc­ing tor­ren­tial down­pours since last Fri­day.

On Wednes­day, as busi­ness­es and schools be­gan the clean-up process, news start­ed cir­cu­lat­ing on so­cial me­dia that a body was found in a ve­hi­cle that ap­peared to have been washed away by the flood­ing in Wood­lands in the south of the is­land.

The body was lat­er iden­ti­fied as a pri­ma­ry school teacher. It is un­der­stood that she didn’t re­turn home last evening, and her hus­band and oth­er fam­i­ly mem­bers em­barked on search­ing for her and the ve­hi­cle. —ST. GEORGE’S, Grena­da (CMC)