REPORTS reveal that three children from the same family were discovered dead inside a parked automobile in the Owode Elede neighbourhood of Ikorodu, Lagos.
Oliseh, Daniel, and Destiny Egba, three, six, and eight years old repectively, were thought to have died of suffocation on Thursday evening.
They were said to have gotten into a parked Hyundai Accent automobile with the registration number BDG404CL to play at 16, Gbamire Street, Owode Elede, and were unable to get out of the car.
It was learned that the children of Lorita Azibato, who lived at 2, Gbamire Street, had wandered inside the compound where the vehicle was parked while playing.
It was unclear how long they were inside the vehicle before their bodies were discovered by some visitors of the car owner.
“No one knew they were inside the vehicle. It was some visitors who came to see the owner while looking at the vehicle that discovered them.
“When their bodies were brought out around 7pm, their mother was not back from the market.
“Neighbours did not have her telephone number, so police had to wait until she returned home around 11:30pm to break the news to her.
“Apparently, the children were not in the care of anyone else. The person in charge of them would have looked for them before their mother returned from the market,” said a source.
A police spokesman, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, confirmed the incident, saying that operatives attached to Owode Onirin received information around 7 p.m. on Thursday that the young siblings were found lifeless inside the car.
According to him, detectives arrived at the location immediately, secured it for investigation, and evacuated the bodies to the mortuary.
