Alwar: Authorities have adviced people to exercise caution even as North India continues to reel under intense heatwave conditions.
People need to take special care of children and not allow them to move out in the intense heat, the authorities have said, after two children died of suffocation inside a car in Rajasthan’s Alwar on Thursday.
Motorists have also been asked not to leave children alone inside parked cars, even for a few minutes, as the interiors can get extremely hot and stuffy.
In the Alwar case, the two sisters, identified as Tina (8) and Lakshmi (5) were playing near their house in the Khudanpuri area, under the Vaishali Nagar police station limits, when the incident occurred.
The daytime temperature in Alwar peaked to 43 degrees Celsius on Thursday.
The two girls reached a nearby car service centre where a vehicle had been parked. The police said the sisters entered the car while playing, but the doors allegedly got locked accidentally, trapping them inside the vehicle amid the scorching heat, as reported by Hindustan Times.
The family and neighbours began searching for the children after they remained missing for a long time.
During the search, the girls were found unconscious inside the parked car at the service centre, station house officer Gurudutt Sharma said.
“They were immediately taken out, but by then both children had died due to suffocation,” he added.
The children were rushed to a hospital, where doctors declared them dead on arrival. The Police shifted the bodies to the district hospital mortuary and launched an investigation into the incident.
A CCTV clip of the incident has also surfaced online, purportedly showing the two sisters opening the door of the parked car and climbing inside while playing.
The temperature inside the locked vehicle is believed to have risen sharply, effectively turning the car into a heat chamber within minutes.
The children remained trapped inside the vehicle for nearly 30 minutes before being discovered, local media reports said.
The matter is particularly tragic as the two children were being raised by a single father.
Their father, Ramesh, told the police that the family originally belonged to the Bedam area and was currently living in a rented house in Khudanpuri.
The children had already lost their mother four years ago and their father had been raising them alone since then, relatives said. His daughters were Ramesh’s only emotional support, they said.
