The first victim is 6 year-old Zaem Torres who fell into a vat filled with water and drowned. It happened on Thursday night, sometime around 11:00. That's when police visited the Bay Side area of the Island and they saw several men performing CPR on Torres's little body. It wasn't yielding any results, and he was rushed to the Otto Rodriguez Poly Clinic, where he was pronounced dead on arrival.

Reports to police are that the child climbed up on the water tank in an area that has a number of such tanks. He fell in and drowned.

This evening, we spoke via telephone to his uncle, who is acting as the spokesperson for the family. He told us that this was a freak accident, and that there was no negligence on the part of the parents. He said that on that Holy Thursday, little Zaem's mother and father were working. That evening, they went out a family for dinner at a nearby restaurant. He said that the parents allowed the child to run around and play with other children since the area is usually safe from any dangers.

Zaem's uncle told us that about 200-300 feet from the restaurant on the dock, there are 4 Rotoplas water reservoir tanks. These tanks supply water for nearby resorts, and, it appears that on this night, one of the reservoirs was not covered. Most-likely, one of the employees may have been checking the water levels, and there was a stool set up to get high enough to do the testing. It is believed that the child climbed up on the stool, and then up onto the reservoir, and he lost his balance and fell in.