POLICE in Regional Division Two, are currently investigating a fatal incident which claimed the life of three-year-old Alaia Etwaroo, a preschool student from the Essequibo Coast, Region Two.

It has been disclosed that the incident occurred at about 17:20hrs on March 19 2025 at Lot 98, ‘EX Mouth’.

According to a police report, enquiries revealed that Alaia lived at the afore-mentioned address with her mother, Saudia Hannif, a 28-year-old housewife, and her father, Ganesh Etwaroo, a 30-year-old rice farmer, along with other family members.

According to her father, on March 19, 2025, at about 17:20hrs, Alaia and her four-year-old sister Sarfeena Etwaroo, were playing on the western side of the yard when Saudia Hannif heard a loud noise coming from that area.

Upon checking, she discovered her daughter Alaia lying on the ground with a metal gate on top of her. The three-year-old who was bleeding from a wound on her forehead was immediately picked up and rushed to the Charity Public Hospital, where the doctor on duty pronounced her dead on arrival.

The metal gate is approximately ten feet in length and six feet in height. There were bloodstains in the immediate area where it had fallen.