A 12-year-old girl drowned in a river at Barangay Tooy, Himamaylan City in Negros Occidental Saturday afternoon, May 22.
The victim, whose name was withheld by the police, and her minor friends went to the river to play and take a bath.
A few minutes later, the friends noticed that the victim was gone so they searched for her. After an hour, they saw her body submerged in the water.
The victim was brought by the Himamaylan rescue team to the Governor Valeriano M. Gatuslao Hospital where she was declared dead on arrival by the attending physician.
The cadaver of the victim was then brought to a funeral home for a post-mortem examination.*