Police investigating death of six-year-old girl

Police in Paphos are investigating the death of a six-year-old girl.

The girl was living with her parents, who are asylum seekers from Nigeria, and had according to Paphos police’s assistant operations director Michalis Nikolaou “been dealing with various health problems since birth”.

She had had her tonsils and adenoids removed at the Paphos general hospital on Wednesday, before being discharged on Thursday.

It is reported that at some point, she then “lay down in her house and fell asleep without waking up again”.

She was taken late on Thursday night to the Paphos general hospital’s accident and emergency department and pronounced dead.

The police say there is no suspicion of criminal activity.