Missing boys die of suffocation as parents fail to search neighbour’s car in Telangana
NIZAMABAD: In a hapless incident, two minor children, Syed Riyaz, 10, and Mohd Burhanuddin, 5 — suffocated after they were accidentally locked up in a car at Mujahidnagar on Tuesday. Even after their parents realised that the sons were missing, it did not occur to them to look in the neighbour’s car.
According to police, the owner of the car, who is also a neighbour of the two children, had a habit of starting his car and leaving it for a while to keep the engine in a working condition. On Tuesday, Riyaz and Burhanuddin discovered the unlocked car but as soon as they got in, the doors locked themselves.
Unable to unlock the doors, the boys were suffocated. Meanwhile, their parents continued to look for them in the neighbourhood instead. It was not until late in the night when the car-owner went to check the car that the kids were found. They were already dead by then.
Later the parents of the deceased children informed the police who reached the spot and shifted the bodies to Government General Hospital here for a post-mortem examination.