Trinidad: Mom, baby die in crash

Fire officers at the crash site on the Manzanilla stretch in which Sacha Surujbally, 21, and her three-month baby Syriah died yesterday.
Fire officers at the crash site on the Manzanilla stretch in which Sacha Surujbally, 21, and her three-month baby Syriah died yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) A woman and her infant daughter were killed instantly in a car crash along the Manzanilla stretch yesterday.

The victims were identified as Sacha Surujbally, 21, and her three-month baby Syriah, of Coalmine in Sangre Grande.

Surujbally was the driver of the vehicle.

Baby Syriah was strapped in a car seat in the middle of the back seat.

Also in the vehicle were Surujbally’s husband Andre Seepersad, 31, mother Kay Surujbally and father Dalip Surujbally, who all sustained serious injuries and were taken to the Mayaro District Hospital.

The crash occurred around 2 p.m. in the vicinity of LP# 1163, a few kilometres from the Manzanilla Beach Resort.