The town of Saint-Joseph wakes up bruised after the death of two women yesterday at the Presqu’île ford, in Saint-Joseph.
Yesterday, around 4 p.m., emergency services were called to the Presqu’île ford in Saint-Joseph for a vehicle that had been swept into the river.
When they arrived on scene, firefighters discovered an overturned and submerged car.
After deploying a device in place to access the vehicle, firefighters found two bodies inside: those of two women, a mother and her daughter, aged 61 and 36 years old.
Not necessarily linked to rising water levels
This morning, vehicles continue to use this ford. The vehicle is still turned over in the river.
Claude Adèle, the 1st deputy of the commune of Saint-Josephprovides some details on the victims, the first two deaths of the year on our roads.
-This mother and her daughter were not from the town, but were visiting their son and brother. They certainly came from a small family meal. These are people of Haitian origin but who are residents, a priori, in Fort de France
The investigation into the circumstances of this tragedy is still ongoing but, according to Claude Adèle, it was “perhaps not a rise in water levels unless it was a sudden rise because when the firefighters arrived they were able to go there on foot”
We are a little skeptical about that. Only those who intervened first, a group of young people it seems to me, who immediately dove in and pulled out the first body according to some accounts, can say if at the time of the events, the river was impassable. If they were able to dive, I think the river wasn’t that high. It’s happened before, about three years ago, someone had fainted on the ford and then found themselves in the same situation.
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