BACOLOD CITY – A five-year-old boy drowned on a river in Linaw Bubong, Barangay San Miguel, La Carlota City, Negros Occidental on Black Saturday.

MAP of La Carlota, Negros Occidental.
Police said the victim, along with his father and older siblings, went to the river bank to feed their carabao.
Their father warned them not to go to the river before he left them to urinate.
But the victim tagged along with his siblings and swam in the river.
Their father returned but the victim had drowned after going into the deep portion of the river.
The victim was taken to the Don Salvador Benedicto Memorial District Hospital in La Carlota City where he was declared dead.