Three children of same parents have been found dead inside a parked car they were playing in at Owode Elede in the Ikorodu area of Lagos State.

It was gathered that the kids identified as Oliseh, Daniel and Destiny Egba, three, six and eight years respectively, suffocated on Thursday evening.

The children were said to have entered a parked Hyundai Accent car with registration number BDG404CL to play and could not come out of the vehicle.

A resident of the area, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said the kids were discovered by some visitors of the car owner.

“It was some visitors who came to see the owner while looking at the vehicle that discovered them.

“When their bodies were brought out around 7pm, their mother was not back from the market.

“Neighbours did not have her telephone number, so police had to wait until she returned home around 11:30pm to break the news to her.

“Apparently, the children were not in the care of anyone else. The person in charge of them would have looked for them before their mother returned from the market,” he said.

The incident was confirmed by the Lagos State Police Public Relations Officer, SP Benjamin Hundeyin.

Hundeyin said operatives attached to Owode Onirin received information around 7pm on Thursday that the young siblings were found inside the car lifeless.

The police spokesperson added that detectives immediately went to the scene, secured it for investigation and evacuated the bodies to the mortuary.

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