A five-month-old baby girl has reported died after being subjected to genital mutilation, a practice banned in the country.
5-month old Aminata Drammeh is said to have died immediately after undergoing mutilation.
The toddler was subjected to the gruesome practice after she was taken by grandmother Sunkaru Darboe to Isatou Camara said to be a circumciser in Kiang West
Both women are now being held by a Gambian lower court on charges of FGM and allegedly causing the death of the toddler.
The trial judge presiding the case is yet to grant the accused persons bail with one suspect said to be on the run.
Perpetrators of FGM crime face up to 3-year in jail and a possible D50,000 fine in Gambian law.
FGM banning comes after its incorporation into the country's Women's Act by parliament.
This reels in as a huge sigh of relief for anti-FGM campaigners who'd been mounting pressure for a law to be legislated since head of state Jammeh announced abolition of the age-old practice.
Up to 70% of Gambian women have undergone the practice according to a recent study.
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