And while that 6 year old drowned, 9 year-old Samaria Azencio is currently hospitalized at the KHMH after she almost drowned on Saturday afternoon.
We understand that sometime around 2:00, she was swimming in the sea at the Miami Beach area of Corozal Town. That's in the popular bay area, and she was there with her family, but reports are that she went under rather suddenly. There were swimmers nearby who immediately went to rescue her, and several persons performed CPR on her to save her life. They kept the CPR going even as police transported her to the Corozal Community Hospital.
Today, our colleagues from CTV 3 News spoke with one of the persons who helped to revive her as soon as she was out of the water. Here's what she had to say:
Nekeisha Lima, Administered CPR
"I was at the beach with my family, my kids, socializing. I had my kids in the water, so I was speaking to my parent when someone said a little girl was drowning and when I turned around, because I had my back towards the sea, I saw a man who already had the little girl in his arms in the water coming to shore. Then I saw everyone just came to the beach side to see what was happening and I just ran to the warf. When I got there, the little girl was already out of the water and they had this man who was already doing CPR on her, then then crowd around her. I knew CPR, so I helped him. The little girl was like vomiting, he was trying to use his fingers to take out the food from inside her mouth, meantime I pump on her and she is taking out the food - he was the one blowing in her mouth, so that she could get oxygen. I reacted by my kids were also in the water. I mean if it was one of mine, it is sad to see a child in that situation and stuff."
"I was happy that I was there. I was happy that I could have helped as much as I did and I'm happy to know that she is doing okay as well. I don't know her name. I don't know where she is from. I don't know her age. I don't know anything about the little girl, I just did what I had to do at that point in time."
She was rushed to the Corozal Hospital in time, and she has since been transported to the KHMH, where she is in a critical but stable condition.
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