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Engineer drowns after vehicle plunges into Rio Cobre
July 31, 2025
The Bog Walk police in St Catherine are investigating the death of an engineer who drowned in the Rio Cobre yesterday.
The deceased has been identified as 58-year-old Garfield Batts, a mechanical engineer of Lot 118 Saint Rose, Green Acres, St Catherine.
Reports are that about 7:45 a.m. on July 30, Batts was travelling along the Bog Walk Gorge when he reportedly lost control of his vehicle, which ran off the road.
The vehicle plunged into the Rio Cobre, where Batts is suspected to have encountered difficulties and drowned.
His body was later removed from the water and taken to a funeral home for storage, pending a post-mortem examination.
- Rasbert Turner
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