2 Mumbai children went missing, found dead inside a locked car
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Mumbai: After hours of reporting missing, two children were found dead inside a locked car in central Mumbai's Antop Hill. According to police, the children would have suffocated to death, PTI reported, citing officials' account on Thursday.
The car which they were found was locked from inside, an official said and added that it appeared that the children could not unlock it.
The two children, identified as Muskan Mohabbat Shaikh (5) and Sajid Mohammed Shaikh (7), were playing outside their homes, where the car was parked, on Wednesday afternoon.
When the children did not return home till evening, their parents started a search for them. Subsequently, they also lodged a missing complaint at the Antop Hill police station, the official said.
A few hours later, an onlooker found the children lying unconscious inside the car. The vehicle doors were opened, and the kids were rushed to the hospital, but doctors declared them dead, the official said.
The official said that the children died of suffocation after they got locked inside the car, according to prima facie evidence. However, police are examining the footage of CCTV cameras installed in the area to investigate all possible angles of the matter. They said that so far, a case of accidental death has been registered.
