A 40-year-old woman drowned while hik­ing near the Madamas Riv­er on Sat­ur­day. She has been iden­ti­fied as Jes­si­ca Jor­dan, of Man­a­ham­bre Road, Ste Madeleine, San Fer­nan­do.

Re­ports in­di­cate that Jor­dan was hik­ing with a group of about ten peo­ple near the Madamas Wa­ter­fall in Bras­so Seco, Paria, when she slipped while walk­ing through knee-high wa­ter.

Her legs re­port­ed­ly be­came trapped be­tween two logs and, de­spite ef­forts to free her, she was sub­merged in ris­ing wa­ter caused to in­ten­si­fy­ing rain­fall, as oth­ers were forced to re­treat to safe­ty.