LAHORE Five children suffocated in a village in eastern Pakistan after locking themselves in a parked car, police said Sunday.
The incident took place in Wahndu village, in Gujranwala district, around 65 kilometres north of Lahore on Saturday afternoon, police officer Mohammad Afzal told AFP.
The family were taking afternoon nap in their house when the five children, aged between two and six years old, sneaked into their uncles car and locked themselves in, Afzal said.
Local police station chief Samiullah Khan said the children were found unconscious after the family sent a teenaged boy to look for them.
“The children were pronounced dead at the hospital. They died of suffocation as they could not unlock the car or slide down the windows,” Khan told AFP.
Parents have told the police that it was an accident and there would be no further investigation, he added.
