RHON­DOR DOWLAT

Se­nior Re­porter

rhon­dor.dowlat@guardian.co.tt

A 26-year-old man drowned at Yarra Beach, North Coast, Trinidad on In­de­pen­dence Day.

The vic­tim was iden­ti­fied as Uzziel Adams of Cor­ner 10th Av­enue and 10th Street, Barataria.

Ac­cord­ing to a po­lice re­port, at about 5:30 pm Adams was in the wa­ter with two friends when he got out to put on his gog­gles and snorkels and re-en­tered the wa­ter.

Adams was then seen swim­ming out pass the rocks and ap­prox­i­mate­ly ten min­utes af­ter his friends saw him they re­al­ized they lost sight of him and be­gan scan­ning the wa­ter look­ing for him.

Af­ter scan­ning the wa­ter for about 30 min­utes they con­tact­ed E-999.

W/Ag/Cpl Lewis con­tact­ed the Trinidad and To­ba­go Coast Guard for as­sis­tance with search­ing for the vic­tim, how­ev­er, due to sun­set, the Coast Guard in­di­cat­ed that divers would be at the lo­ca­tion at first light on Fri­day morn­ing to com­mence the search.

Adams' body was lat­er found and fished out of the wa­ters.

PC Ban­doo of the Blan­chisseuse Po­lice Sta­tion is in­ves­ti­gat­ing.