A POST-MORTEM is being carried out today on a toddler who died following an incident at an Essex nursery.An ambulance took the two-year-old girl from Eton Manor nursery in Roding Lane, Chigwell, to Whipps Cross Hospital in London at 11.15am.

A POST-MORTEM is being carried out today on a toddler who died following an incident at an Essex nursery.

An ambulance took the two-year-old girl from Eton Manor nursery in Roding Lane, Chigwell, to Whipps Cross Hospital in London at 11.15am yesterday.

She was certified dead at 11.40am.

Essex Police said although investigations are in the early stages, it is thought the death was result of a children's activity, involving a playhouse.

A post-mortem being carried out today is expected to reveal the preliminary cause of death.