Update: 1:01PM THE drowning toll so far this year has equalled that for the same period last year.
It follows the death of a 20-year-old woman of Savusavu.
Police spokesman Inspector Atunaisa Sokomuri said the victim was suffering from epilepsy and drowned while accompanying her mother on a fishing trip at sea.
The number of people who have drowned so far this year is 17.