An eight-year-old girl who was re­port­ed­ly pushed in­to a riv­er in Gon­za­les by an­oth­er child and washed in­to an un­der­ground drain dur­ing in­tense rain­fall yes­ter­day was lat­er res­cued from the East Dry Riv­er (EDR) in Port-of-Spain by po­lice of­fi­cers who risked their own lives to save her.

Rush­ing to ren­der as­sis­tance min­utes af­ter they were in­formed about the in­ci­dent around 3.45 pm, PC’s Tay­lor and Nep­tune of the In­ter Agency Task Force (IATF) sprang in­to ac­tion and were as­sist­ed by a civil­ian.

The of­fi­cers had been on mo­bile pa­trol along Pic­cadil­ly Street, Port-of-Spain, when they were alert­ed by Dil­lion Ram­sey of Quar­ry Street as to what had hap­pened.