Four children kicked the bucket after locking themselves in car

Tragedy struck in Dattawa, in the Igabi Local Regime Area of Kaduna State, as four children suffocated after mistakenly locking themselves in a car. PUNCH Metro accumulated that the children – Umar Mansir (male, 9);
Maryam Salisu (female, 12); Sadiyya Bashir (female, 7); and Fatima Ibrahim (female, 3) – lived with their parents in Rigasa Quarters and always played together. However, their parents were verbalized to have gone out on Thursday and one of them left his Honda Civic car unlocked in the compound. The children were reported to have entered into the car and later closed the door.It was verbalized that one of them pressed the lock button and as the car got heated, the children became trapped.

A denizen verbally expressed the kids suffocated, integrating that their parents did not ken they were dead until they came back home in the evening. He verbally expressed, “The incident transpired on Thursday, but the police did not get acquainted with until the following day.The children lived in the same compound. Their parents went out on a visit that day and they commenced playing on the premises of their building. “Later, they got into the car and locked the doors. When the heat became exorbitant, they made efforts to get out to no avail. We optically discerned scratches on the conveyances upholstery and the marks of their hands on the windows. “However, they could neither get out nor find avail and they died in the car. When their parents returned, they commenced probing for them. When the search was futile, somebody decided to check the car, and the children were there, dead.” Our correspondent accumulated that the incident threw the whole neighbourhood into mourning. PUNCH Metro was told that the corpses were kept till the following morning, after which they were buried. A police source verbalized the police in the Rigasa area got wind of the incident on Friday and stormed the area. He verbally expressed, “The families did not report to the police for reasons best kenned to them. By the time the police got to the place on Friday, the denizens had already prepared the corpses for burial. The whole community was in tears.

The children were buried that day in accordance with Islamic rites.” The Police Public Cognations Officer, Kaduna State, Zubairu Abubakar, corroborated the incident, integrating that the police had commenced investigations. He verbally expressed, “The incident transpired on Thursday, but we learnt about it on Friday, April 29, 2016. The desolate bodies of the four children were traced to a Honda Civic car parked in the compound. Investigation is in progress.”