A probe has been launched following the fatal stabbing of 19-year-old Sheniza Mohamed of Edinburgh, East Bank Berbice.

Police reported that at about 19:00hrs last Saturday, Mohamed was in a restaurant at Rosignol, also on the East Bank Berbice, when she was involved in an argument during which she was stabbed about her body.

Investigations revealed that Mohamed was in a row with a man with whom she is reported to have ended a relationship when she was stabbed about her body.

She was admitted to the New Amsterdam Hospital where she later succumbed.

The suspect has been arrested and is in police custody assisting with the investigations.