A family in Brazil is mourning the loss of a two-year-old girl who drowned in a bucket of water at her home on Christmas Eve. Isabele Louise de Sousa Silva was found unconscious by her mother in the outdoor laundry area of their home in Sao Joao da Canabrava, in the state of Piaui.
According to police, the mother had been washing clothes when she noticed the house had gone quiet. She began searching for her daughter and discovered the toddler headfirst in a bucket of water. The girl is believed to have fallen in and been unable to get out.
The mother desperately called neighbours for help, who attempted to resuscitate the child while emergency services were contacted. Isabele was taken to the town's advanced basic health unit for first aid and later transferred to a medical unit in nearby Bocaina, but tragically passed away.
Police are treating the incident as a domestic accident. Local education authorities confirmed that Isabele would have turned three in January and that her mother works at a local school where the child was enrolled.
