A FOUR-year-old girl became the second casualty of this week’s heavy rainfall, when she was killed by a landslide while asleep at her mother’s Ariapita Road, St Ann’s, home yesterday.

Nathalie was totally unaware of what was happening as a landslide came tumbling down the hillside around 4 p.m.

According to a relative, both the child’s mother, Neela Poon, and the child were asleep when, ’within minutes’, their home, along with two others, was dragged down the hill by the landslide.

Fire Service headquarters said they responded to the call and a search-and-rescue team was sent to the area in a bid to find the child. In the meantime, however, relatives clawed through the mud looking for the toddler and managed to pull her out still alive, but just barely.

Her body had been battered and by the time they got her to the Port of Spain General Hospital, she was already dead.

The relative of Poon who spoke to the Express last night said that the ’entire area’ was in a state of shock over the incident.

The four-year-old joined 65-year-old Barbara Emmanuel, who was killed when her Morne Coco Road, Maraval, home was washed down during a mudslide in her community on Sunday.