An 11-month-old boy has died af­ter he re­port­ed­ly choked on vom­it at his fam­i­ly’s Cu­mu­to home on Sun­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said the ba­by’s moth­er fed him a bot­tle at 3.45 am and put him to sleep.

She awoke around 5.30 am and while check­ing on him, no­ticed he had vom­it around his mouth with his paci­fi­er still in.

The woman re­moved the paci­fi­er and no­ticed even more vom­it in the child’s mouth and re­alised he was breath­ing ir­reg­u­lar­ly.

An am­bu­lance was called in and took the ba­by to the Ari­ma Health Fa­cil­i­ty, where he was de­clared dead around 7 that morn­ing.

In­ves­ti­ga­tors said the ba­by had a his­to­ry of sev­er­al falls and was treat­ed at the Ari­ma Health Fa­cil­i­ty in the past.

Po­lice from the Homi­cide Bu­reau of In­ves­ti­ga­tions Re­gion II are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.

Child in­jured in hit-and-run

To­ba­go po­lice are hunt­ing for a man who al­leged­ly left a po­lice of­fi­cer’s child hos­pi­talised in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter a hit-and-run ac­ci­dent in Black Rock on Sun­day night.

The 12-year-old child, whose moth­er is as­signed to the Scar­bor­ough Po­lice Sta­tion, is cur­rent­ly un­der­go­ing surgery.

Po­lice told Guardian Me­dia the dri­ver fled the scene af­ter hit­ting the child, aban­don­ing the ve­hi­cle a short dis­tance away. Of­fi­cers lat­er re­cov­ered the car, which has since been tak­en to the Shir­van Road Po­lice Sta­tion. The sus­pect’s pic­ture has been shared on so­cial me­dia by fam­i­ly and friends, ask­ing for help in find­ing out his where­abouts.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.