Several careless parents have left their children in the locked cars with the Dubai Police rescuing 39 of kids this year.
According to police while some of them were left there by mistake, some parents locked them in the cars as they went shopping and a few kids managed to get into the cars without their parents’ knowledge.
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Experts have warned that leaving children inside vehicles could lead to suffocation, loss of consciousness and even death due to extreme heat and lack of oxygen.
The temperature in a locked car can soar up to 60 degrees Celsius and at such extreme hot conditions children can die in less than 10 minutes.
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The police have responded to 95 distress calls involving children in the first five months of 2021 which includes children locked in cars and lifts. Among those rescued were two Asian children from a locked car as their father went shopping in a supermarket; the two were aged two and four. Local passers-by dialed 999 after they noticed the children waving to them from the locked car which had its engine turned off.
Some incidents were also reported of children unwittingly being left behind in closed vehicles including school buses. In July this year, a 4-year-old boy died after he was forgotten in a bus in Ajman. The boy had dozed off and his body was found four hours later. (AW)
