A tragic incident occurred during the Christmas season as a two-year-old girl drowned in a water bucket at her residence on Christmas Eve. The young girl, Isabelle Louise de Sousa Silva, was discovered in the bucket by her mother in Sao Joao da Canabrava, located in the state of Piaui, Brazil. According to the police, the mother was doing laundry outside when she realized the house had fallen silent. Upon searching for her daughter, she found the toddler unconscious in the bucket.
It is believed that Isabelle accidentally fell headfirst into the bucket and couldn’t free herself. Her mother urgently sought help from neighbors who tried to revive the girl while waiting for emergency services. Subsequently, the two-year-old was rushed to the local advanced basic health unit for initial treatment and later transferred to a medical facility in the nearby town of Bocaina, where, unfortunately, she succumbed to the incident.
Authorities are handling the incident as a household mishap. In a statement post the tragic event, local education officials mentioned that Isabelle would have turned three years old in January and that her mother is employed at a nearby school where the child was a student.