Three toddlers suffocate inside a parked motor vehicle
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The Police Bolobedu near Tzaneen in Limpopo have opened an inquest docket after three children, aged between two and six years, suffocated inside a family vehicle parked in the yard at Jamela village under Bolobedu policing area on Wednesday, January 10th, 2024.
Police say they received a complaint from the clinic at about 14:00, where three children were brought by their parents in a critical condition after they were discovered lying unconscious inside a parked sedan motor vehicle.
Upon arrival, they found that the two children aged two and six, both girls were already certified dead. The third child (boy) aged three passed on a day later, on Thursday 11.
Colonel Malesela Ledwaba said that according to the information available at this stage, the two children, a three-year-old boy and his six-year-old sister went to play next door with the two-year-old girl and while playing, they got inside a parked vehicle with all the windows closed.
They were discovered by a relative who found them unconscious and alerted the elders while the third one, 3 year old boy was transferred to Kgapane hospital and later to Mankweng where he was admitted and later pronounced dead.
