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Au­thor­i­ties are still try­ing to lo­cate the dri­ver or any oc­cu­pants of a ve­hi­cle found aban­doned in flood­wa­ters on Trantrill Road, St Au­gus­tine South, fol­low­ing se­vere flood­ing on Fri­day morn­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to the Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment, the Tu­na­puna/Pi­ar­co Dis­as­ter Man­age­ment Unit re­spond­ed around 10:30 a.m. to a dis­tress call from in­di­vid­u­als trapped while at­tempt­ing to dri­ve through the flood-prone area be­hind the Ca­roni Riv­er. Three ve­hi­cles be­came sub­merged.

Two peo­ple were res­cued by the Trinidad and To­ba­go Fire Ser­vices, as­sist­ed by vol­un­teers from Kalpoos Bird Sanc­tu­ary–Ibis Tours and the Tu­na­puna Cor­po­ra­tion. How­ev­er, the third ve­hi­cle was dis­cov­ered emp­ty.