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The Unit­ed States Am­bas­sador to Guyana, Nicole The­ri­ot, ap­pealed to­day for peace and the rule of law, as the Caribbean coun­try gets ready to say a fi­nal good­bye to 11-year-old Adri­ana Younge, whose body was found in a swim­ming pool as a ho­tel late last month.

Younge is sched­uled to be buried on Mon­day. Her fam­i­ly has con­firmed the date and is urg­ing the pub­lic to re­main peace­ful and avoid any protests.

An au­top­sy con­duct­ed by three in­ter­na­tion­al­ly re­spect­ed pathol­o­gists last week had con­clud­ed that Younge died by drown­ing, but there have been calls for an in­ter­na­tion­al probe in­to the death of the child with sev­er­al po­lit­i­cal par­ties and civ­il so­ci­ety ac­tors dis­miss­ing a re­port from Pres­i­dent Ir­faan Ali that Younge did not die from “force­ful drown­ing”.