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Ten Year Old Drowns After Canoe Capsizes
posted (July 22, 2013)
Tonight, the family of 10 year-old Johan Schmitt, a resident of Shipyard Village in the Orange Walk District, is making preparations for his burial after he drowned yesterday.

His friends told our colleagues at CTV3 News that he was at a pond, seen here, where they always go on Sundays. Schmitt always accompanies his friends to this pond, but because he can't swim, he always watches them while remaining on the pier.

According to his friends yesterday, he decided, without their knowledge or consent, to get into a small skiff at the side of the pier and he was paddling out to them, when suddenly they couldn't see him any longer.

He went under and never surfaced, and 4 hours later, his body was found by police officers who responded to the family's call for help.

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