A three-year-old boy has died in a sus­pect­ed ar­son at­tack in Arou­ca on Thurs­day night.

Po­lice said the boy's moth­er, Geneiel George, was at her Chris­t­ian Av­enue Ex­ten­sion, Windy Hill, Arou­ca, at around 11.45 pm when a man tried to break open the win­dow to get in­to the house.

The woman tried to stop the man from en­ter­ing, but he over­pow­ered her as she fled the home with three of her chil­dren to get help from a male rel­a­tive who lives near­by.

On re­turn­ing to the home, she re­alised it was com­plete­ly on fire. Fire Of­fi­cers were called in and among the de­bris were the re­mains of Ja­reem George.

No oth­er per­son was in­jured in the blaze, how­ev­er se­nior po­lice in the North-Cen­tral Di­vi­sion have con­firmed that search­es are be­ing con­duct­ed for a sus­pect.

This is a de­vel­op­ing sto­ry and will be up­dat­ed as more in­for­ma­tion is ver­i­fied.

Re­gion II Homi­cide in­ves­ti­ga­tors are con­tin­u­ing en­quiries.