Third child victim of suffocation dies

MULTAN: The third child victim of suffocation in a locked car, died at Nishtar Hospital Multan on Saturday. Two children died on Friday due to suffocation after the car was auto locked.

According to Rescue 1122, three children namely Ali Hassan, 7, Shahroz, 5 and Sher Alam 8, residents of Zakariya Town in sub-district Shujaabad of Multan were playing outside their homes.



While playing, they saw a car parked nearby and somehow got inside the car seeing no one around. After getting into the car, the children started playing unaware of the fact that the car was locked. The car was owned by a landlord Halaq Bodla which was parked there for the last six years.

Rescue sources said, two children, Hassan and Shahroz had died on the spot while the third child Sher Alam was shifted to Nishtar Hospital in a critical condition where he died on Saturday.

Published in The Express Tribune, June 4^th, 2017.