Family only noticed the child was missing three hours after returning home from an outing
Sharjah: A four-year-old boy died on Friday afternoon after his family forgot him in the car for almost three hours.
The incident occurred in Al Ramtha area of Sharjah.
The child, who was identified as S.A.B.R., was taken to Al Qasimi hospital at around 3pm, where he was pronounced dead.
A police official told Gulf News that theEMIRATI
family had gone for an outing in the car and returned home at 1pm. Subsequently, after parking the car inside the garage, the child’s father and the rest of the family got out of the car, mistakenly leaving the four-year-old child behind in the back seat.
family had gone for an outing in the car and returned home at 1pm. Subsequently, after parking the car inside the garage, the child’s father and the rest of the family got out of the car, mistakenly leaving the four-year-old child behind in the back seat.
It was only three hours later that the family realized that the child was missing. A frantic search ensued and the boy was found lying motionless in the back seat.
“The child suffocated due to the high temperatures inside and outside the car,” a police official explained.
Police have ruled out foul play in the incident.
The body of the child was moved to the forensic laboratory for autopsy, police said, adding that the body would be handed over to the family for burial upon completion of the formalities.
PARENTAL NEGLIGENCE
The issue of small children being left behind by parents in cars in a moment of forgetfulness caused much soul-searching in the UAE after a number of cases of children dying in the cars were reported but instances of parental negligence continue to baffle authorities.
A Dubai Police official said that 177 children were found to have been left behind in their parents’ cars in the space of 16 months but timely intervention byOFFICERS had saved the lives of the children, who were mostly found in cars parked in shopping malls and public parks.
had saved the lives of the children, who were mostly found in cars parked in shopping malls and public parks.
“We saved 137 children, who were kept in parked vehicles last year and another 40 in the first quarter of 2015,” Major Abdullah Ali Mohammad, Director of land rescue at the General Department of Transport and Rescue, said in May this year. “Luckily,OFFICERS from the department found these children moments before they risked suffocating.”
from the department found these children moments before they risked suffocating.”
Major Mohammad told anARABIC newspaper that such incidents are a result of negligence and lack of awareness on the part of parents.
newspaper that such incidents are a result of negligence and lack of awareness on the part of parents.
“We’ve stumbled on quite a few shocking cases,” he said. “With the increase in temperature, such incidents can prove extremely dangerous and even fatal [for children].”
Major Mohammad said that most children experience a panic attack once they find they cannot open the car door and have been left alone. “Panic attacks simulate a feeling of suffocation,” he said.
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