Tragic accident: Seven-year-old suffocates to death

LAHORE: A seven-year-old boy suffocated to death near Sherakot on Sunday. Police said the boy, a resident of Bus Adda, was playing hide-and-seek with his siblings when the accident occurred. “He hid in a trunk used for storing flour in the kitchen. The lid of the trunk locked in its place. The other children did not know where he was,” police said. They said after a few hours, the family started looking for him. “By the time he was found, he had suffocated to death,” police said.

Published in The Express Tribune, April 20^th, 2015.