Girl, three, drowns in stream
03/02/2005 - 20:49:01The family of a three-year-old girl who drowned after wandering away from her Monaghan home was tonight being comforted by friends and relatives.
Gardaí launched a search after family members reported the girl and her five-year-old cousin missing from their house.
The girl, who turned three last month, was found shortly before 2pm face down in the disused Old Ulster Canal near a wooded area in Knockroe, Clones Road in Monaghan town.
A garda spokesman said: “The cousin was found safe and well and 10-minutes later she was found in a stream near a wooded area.
“She was taken to hospital.”
However, gardaí said efforts at resuscitation failed.
