Lenicia's grandmother Ionie McLean shows the spot where the infant was crushed by the fallen concrete blocks. - George Henry

A bitter pill to swallow, is how relatives of two-year-old Lenicia Clarke described her tragic death in Spaldings Hill, Clarendon, on Saturday. The infant died after a section of an unfinished concrete house fell on her.

Lenicia uncle, André Brown, said the incident happened about 3 p.m. when the baby girl and other children gathered near the unfinished house.

"I was standing at a farther section away from the house, when some of the children went to get some tangerines. When they (children) came back they were issuing them (tangerines); she heard them and ran towards them who were on the inside. She ran from the outside of the building towards them," said Brown.

He said when Lenicia reached near the concrete structure he saw when a section started crumbling; and he ran towards her but it was too late. "I was only able to catch two of the blocks, but those were not the relevant ones, because others fell on her. She did not even cry, but it took a few seconds to get them off her," said the uncle.

The infant was rushed to the Percy Junor Hospital where she was pronounced dead. "Right now I am feeling very dazed. I think what has happened is all a dream. I am having a severe headache and I still do not believe that she is dead," said Brown.

Marion McLean, Lenicia grand-aunt, told THE STAR she felt real bad when persons who heard and saw what took place started to scream. She said when she heard the screams she ran to the accident scene where she saw her nephew taking several blocks off her grand-niece.

Detective Corporal Martin Morgan from the Spaldings police said investigations are continuing into the incident.