BENGALURU: A man and a woman were suffocated to death in a parked MUV after they were trapped inside the vehicle and its air-conditioning stopped working. The incident occurred in Annapurneshwari Nagar near Kamakshipalya on Wednesday night but came to light only on Thursday morning.Both the deceased were aged around 30 and were residents of Annapurneshwari Nagar. They both were married to different persons and had children, but had continued their extra-marital relationship. The man was running an automobile spares store.
Police said the man had brought the woman in his Toyota Innova and parked it in his garage on Wednesday night. He closed the garage door and was with the woman having locked the vehicle doors and turned on the AC. There was not much air inside the garage and after a while, the vehicle ran out of
diesel. Due to this, the AC stopped working. The doors too got jammed and they could not open them.
“The incident came to light when the man’s family members opened the garage on Thursday morning. They found both of them dead and alerted the police. We had to break the windows of the vehicle and pull the bodies out. The doctors who conducted post-mortem have said that both died of asphyxiation as there was no air inside the car and they inhaled carbon monoxide. Their family members have made a statement that both were in a relationship despite repeated warnings and were meeting each other frequently,” police said.A case of unnatural death has been registered at Annapurneshwari Nagar police station.