A woman mu­nic­i­pal po­lice of­fi­cer was killed and two of her col­leagues left in crit­i­cal con­di­tion af­ter their marked po­lice ve­hi­cle crashed in­to two oth­er ve­hi­cles in­clud­ing a red band maxi taxi along the Pri­or­i­ty Bus Route in D’abadie, Ari­ma on Tues­day af­ter­noon.

The dead of­fi­cer has been iden­ti­fied as Con­sta­ble Anisa Sookdeo of the Ari­ma Mu­nic­i­pal Po­lice Sta­tion. Po­lice said she died on the scene.

Po­lice re­ports re­vealed that around 4.10 pm Sookdeo was dri­ving a marked po­lice van which crashed in­to a pick-up van and a maxi taxi near the traf­fic light in­ter­sec­tion at Boy’s Lane.

Eye­wit­ness­es told po­lice that the po­lice ve­hi­cle over­turned and land­ed on the dri­ver’s side.

Sookdeo’s col­leagues, Cpl Kei­th Alexan­der and WPC Di­ana See­taram along with oc­cu­pants of the pick-up van, pas­sen­gers and the dri­ver of the maxi-taxi were all tak­en to the Ari­ma Dis­trict Hos­pi­tal in se­ri­ous con­di­tions.

The Min­istry of Rur­al De­vel­op­ment and Lo­cal Gov­ern­ment in a state­ment said it was "sad­dened" by the death of the of­fi­cer, who it said got mar­ried ear­li­er this year.

A col­league of Sookdeo, up­on hear­ing the news took to so­cial me­dia where she ex­tend­ed her con­do­lences and de­scribed Sookdeo as a “sweet girl.” An­oth­er col­league claimed that Sookdeo was re­cent­ly mar­ried.

In­ves­ti­ga­tions are on­go­ing as to what caused the ac­ci­dent as it is al­leged that one of the three ve­hi­cles ran the red light at the in­ter­sec­tion.

This fa­tal crash comes on the heels of an­oth­er ac­ci­dent in­volv­ing three po­lice of­fi­cers of the Ma­yaro po­lice sta­tion.

That ac­ci­dent oc­curred Sun­day when the po­lice car crashed in­to the rear bumper of the cit­i­zen’s ve­hi­cle.

No one was in­jured but PC Feon Gar­cia made a vir­tu­al court ap­pear­ance and was grant­ed bail af­ter be­ing charged with dri­ving un­der the in­flu­ence of drink as to ren­der him in­ca­pable of dri­ving the po­lice ve­hi­cle and fail­ing to sub­mit a sam­ple of breath for test­ing.