Another Tragedy In Lagos As Eight Children Suffocate In SUV

Another tragedy has been recorded in Lagos, with eight children suffocating in a packed in a Honda Sport Utility Vehicle (SUV) parked in the Badagry area of Lagos.

The kids were said to be playing inside the SUV packed on Adelayo Street, in the Jah-Michael area, Badagry Expressway, Lagos State when they mistakenly locked themselves in.

However, a parent was soon to begin searching for the children, only to discover what had happened.

His alarm attracted other people to the scene, but by the time the vehicle was forced open, it was already late – the children – identified as Mamod, Aisha, Zainab, Farida, Yakubu, Tayab, Wahab and another were already dead.

The incident happened last Saturday December 6, 20214, with the Lagos State Commissioner of Police, Hakeem Odumosu ordering an investigation.

, “The eight children while playing were said to have mistakenly locked themselves in an abandoned car. Their bodies have been recovered and deposited in the Badagry General Hospital’s morgue for autopsies in order to determine the actual cause of death”, the state Police Public Relations Officer, CSP Adekunle Ajisebutu said in a statement.

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However, Punch quotes a consultant family physician at the Lagos State University Teaching Hospital, Ikeja, Dr Oluwajimi Sodipo, as saying that it must have taken up to six, seven hours before the children could die from asphyxiation or excessive heat.

 “There are many determinants to the loss of oxygen in the vehicle. The number of children in the vehicle; because apart from the oxygen that will come in, the longer they stay inside the vehicle, they will also be providing carbon dioxide, which will be building up over time. So, the more people they are, the more that will build up, and of course, it could cause that.

“Another factor is that it is also dependent on what time the incident happened. One assumption is that they might have died from asphyxiation; another possibility is that if there is a lot of heat as the weather is hot right now and we don’t know what time the incident occurred, if they were trapped in the vehicle for a long time, there is a possibility of complications from excessive heat.

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“Like heatstroke, dehydration, and all that can occur. But on a rough estimate, I will assume that at least it will take more than six to eight hours for all of them to have died within the vehicle, but that is also dependent on a number of factors.”

It is indeed another tragedy that should not have happened