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13-year-old dies under mysterious circumstances
The immediate relatives of 13-year-old Nikita Alana Naseeb, a former Cotton Field Secondary School student and Lima resident, are reluctant to pronounce on the nature of her death. This suggests that they are unsure at this
Nikita Alana Naseeb
time what to conclude.
They have ruled out suicide since the child never exhibited suicidal tendencies and she did not suffer from any life threatening illness.
Yvonne La Cruz, the grandmother of the dead girl said that her family has no other alternative than to rely on a Post Mortem examination, which they hope would reveal the teenager’s cause of death. Nikita was transported to the hospital after falling sick. She died Friday last.
The grandmother who has been caring for her deceased granddaughter, indicated that the child woke up before her and was discovered lying in a hammock in the kitchen.
La Cruz said that moments later her granddaughter went into a front bedroom and sat in a chair.
All that time La Cruz said nothing seemed strange with Nikita and she told her to get up and prepare her breakfast.
La Cruz however said that she is unsure whether the child had breakfast, but however indicated that the girl instructed her younger sister to purchase a bottle of aerated drink for her.
La Cruz said that she even told her granddaughter after she would have eaten her breakfast, to prepare to venture for a trip to the market since she would take her for a walk. She said that the child later collapsed.
She tried to resuscitate her before taking her to a Pastor in Richmond market. “I started to rub her up after she collapsed and she appeared to be in a dazed state.”
La Cruz said after she was told that the Pastor was not a home, she ventured straight to the Suddie Public Hospital where her granddaughter eventually died.
The police were informed of the student’s death. Nikita would have celebrated her fourteenth birthday in August.
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