Three siblings were found dead inside a parked car they were playing in at Owode Elede area of Ikorodu, Lagos State, causing confusion in the area.
The kids identified as Oliseh, Daniel and Destiny Egba, three, six and eight years respectively, were feared to have suffocated last Thursday evening when they entered a parked Hyundai Accent car with registration number BDG404CL to play.
The incident happened on Gbamire Street, Owode Elede.
They couldn’t come out of the vehicle, according to a report by The Nation newspaper.
The children, whose mother, Lorita Azibato, lived at 2, Gbamire Street, had in the course of playing strayed to the compound where the vehicle was parked.
According to a source the children were discovered by visitors who came to visit 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 and so, the 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.
Confirming the incident, police spokesperson, SP Benjamin Hundeyin, said operatives attached to Owode Onirin received information around 7pm on Thursday that the young siblings were found inside the car lifeless.
He said detectives immediately went to the scene, secured it for investigation and evacuated the bodies to the mortuary.
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