A WOMAN has been arrested on suspicion of child neglect after the unexplained death of an eight-year-old girl.
Dyfed-Powys Police are investigating circumstances of the girl's death at Maes-y-Deri in the town on the evening of 22 December.
Only last month a girl tragically died in Penarth after complications following a Strep A infection.
Seven-year-old Hanna Roap, of the town's Victoria Primary School, died on November 25 after contracting the invasive infection that has symptoms including high fever, vomiting and a sore throat.
In the Lampeter case, Public Health Wales said on Wednesday, December 28, it was looking into possible links to a rare complication of Strep A infections.
It said it was working with Hywel Dda University Health Board and Ceredigion Ceredigion Council following the death of a child in Lampeter.
Dr Graham Brown, consultant in communicable disease control for Public Health Wales, said: "We offer our deepest condolences to the family, friends and all those affected.
"Public Health Wales cannot comment on individual cases.
"We are investigating links to Invasive Group A Streptococcal disease (iGAS), a very rare complication of Group A Streptococcal infection."
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