Po­lice are in­ves­ti­gat­ing the sud­den death of a four-month-old ba­by boy in Cou­va on Sun­day morn­ing.

Po­lice said at 8.30 am, Cou­va po­lice of­fi­cers re­spond­ed to a re­port of an un­re­spon­sive child in McBean Vil­lage, Cou­va.

The par­ents re­port­ed leav­ing their four-month-old son, named Lu­cas, with the babysit­ter around 9 pm on Sat­ur­day (No­vem­ber 30). 

Ac­cord­ing to the po­lice re­port, the par­ents re­turned home around 2 am. They were then in­formed by the babysit­ter that she fed ba­by Lu­cas at mid­night and he was fine.

The moth­er then placed Lu­cas in his crib and went to sleep. How­ev­er, she found him un­re­spon­sive around 8.15 am on Sun­day. The ba­by was pro­nounced dead at home.

A post-mortem is ex­pect­ed to be done to de­ter­mine the cause of death.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing.