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UPDATE: Search continues for grandma washed away in MoBay
Beryl Walters and her granddaughter, Jenell.
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April 20, 2022

UPDATE: Search continues for grandma washed away in MoBay

ST JAMES, Jamaica — The search continues today for 68-year-old Beryl Walters who was swept away by floodwaters on Tuesday that claimed the life of her 12-year-old granddaughter Jenell Walters.

Jenell’s body was recovered Tuesday evening about a mile and a half from where she and her grandmother were washed away by raging floodwaters during torrential rain.

The search will likely include a still partially-submerged Toyota Succeed motorcar in which four people were travelling.

Berris Walters, the missing woman’s husband, and his 25-year-old daughter Shannon Walters were rescued by men who fix tyres and an employee of a garden supplies store.

“One heavy water come down and spin it ’round and the man dem did see what a gwaan and a come [help]. One big unit did stop over the side… and then mi come and mi stop and him drive weh and move weh. After him drive weh a heavy water come and lick the car and spin it ’round,” Walters said on Tuesday as he relived the ordeal while awaiting news of his missing wife.

His daughter, 25-year-old Shannon, told the Jamaica Observer how she clung to a tree limb for dear life after the car was swept away.

“It go down into the current and then it turn over. We did wind down the window them because we did see the man dem a come fi tek we out, because we did a call them and them did have rope. But by the time them did come down towards we, a deh so the car go inna the current and start wash weh,” she said.

READ: Heartbreak – 12-year-old drowns, grandmother still missing

More to come.

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