By Marisol Bo- oc | 09:53 PM January 21, 2025
A one-year-old baby drowns in a pail of water in Sagbayan town, Bohol, Tuesday morning, January 21, 2025.
The victim was identified as John Andrei Tinapay, a resident of Purok 6, Barangay San Isidro,
Police Captain Eric Binangbang, chief of Sagbayan Police Station, said that the victim was playing outside their house with his siblings-aged nine and five, when the incident happened.
It was learned that the victim’s parents were having their breakfast at the house of their grandparents adjacent to their house.
Their neighbor informed the parents that the victim was playing with a pail t at the back of their house.
The parents then asked their five-year-old child to check the victim.
The older sibling then discovered the baby drowned already in a pail with water, with his head facing its bottom.
Tinapay was brought to the rural health unit, however, he was declared dead after a few hours.
