- By Femi Alabi
Tragedy struck on Sunday when three kids of the same parents died in a borrowed car by their father as a result of extreme suffocation in Ilorin, Kwara State.
The car, it was gathered, was borrowed by their father from his sister within the same premises of their quarters for quick domestic use.
The boy and two girls were playing in the car parked inside their compound and mistakenly locked themselves in the car.
NPO reports gather that the incident occurred at No. 8, Boluke Line, Zango-Kulende quarters in the Ilorin East local government area of Kwara State on Sunday.
NPO was informed that the mother of the kids named Shade Silifat, had gone out to buy noodles for the children’s school meals on Monday when the sad incident occurred.
Their mother, Shade, who returned from where she went to buy noodles and discovered their foot wares outside the parked car, raised an alarm after forcing the doors of the car open.
She reportedly, fainted when she met the three children motionless as a result of suffocation inside the car.
Efforts to rescue the children wasn’t successful as they were hastily rushed to a private clinic very close to the area for medical attention.
The medical director, of the private clinic Dr. Adeyemo , however, directed that they be taken to the University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, where they were confirmed dead.
The three siblings were later taken to Muslim cemetery for burial according to Islamic rite.