Four children suffocate to death in locked car; one arrested


Tuticorin (TN), Aug 13 (NDTV): After four children died of suffocation in a locked car in Tamil Nadu, the police has arrested one man today for alleged negligence.

The suspect is the employee of a yard used to hold cars seized from bank loan defaulters.

Two boys and two girls, all between 4 and 10, climbed into the car yesterday while their parents were attending a festival in the Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu.

The police says the children entered the car to play; the automatic locking system turned the car into a death trap; the children couldn't figure out how to get out.

The police says it is searching for the owner of the company that manages the yard where they died.

Devastated parents accepted their children's bodies after initially refusing to accept them. Ms Muthalammal, a relative of one of the children who died, said, "The police should take strict action. Only because they didn't lock the car this has happened."

  

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  • Ahmed, Mangalore

    Thu, Aug 14 2014

    Very sad incident. RIP.
    But, When I park my car in my yard I don't lock the car. That doesn't mean anyone can enter my car and lock themselves up. Now, new law has to be implemented to lock all the cars.

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  • Jossey Saldanha, Mumbai

    Thu, Aug 14 2014

    Maneka Gandhi should be arrested ...

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  • Henry Sequeira, Kateel, USA

    Thu, Aug 14 2014

    In developed countries it is law that a parent can't leave a child alone below 12 years without adult supervision. It is a serious offence. In India there is no such law and it is time for Menaka Ghandi to intervene and introduce a clause to this effect in the recent child protection bill.

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  • Noel, Mangalore

    Thu, Aug 14 2014



    readwriter,

    True.

    Many more question marks.?????

    Then what is the parents fault ?

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  • readerwriter007, pune

    Thu, Aug 14 2014

    no clear still... kids boarded the car and got trapped. parents were away attending a function... till here it's clear. now how the yard coming in to picture ? how the car ended up in yard ? is it the car owner is the bank defaulter and hence yard people took the car to the yard ? if so while doing so, didn't they observe children insite the car ? Is it just like that , having children trapped insider they took the car ? Confused ....

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  • clvie, Kuwait

    Thu, Aug 14 2014

    why cant they arrest the parents too?

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