(MENAFN- Khaleej Times) Despite the high temperature the boy identified only as H.
Ras Al Khaimah — A Civil Defence team came to the rescue of a two-year-old boy who was trapped in his mother’s car as the doors got locked when the woman went inside a shop with the engine running in Ras Al Khaimah on Thursday afternoon.
According to a source at the department the woman left the toddler unsupervised in the parked car which has a Dubai registration number in Al Nakheel area. “Despite the high temperature the boy identified only as H.A. was unharmed by the time the rescuers broke open the car’s boot door.”
The department was alerted by a passerby about an infant locked inside a car. The rescue team rushed to the scene. By the time the panicked mother was there but she could not get inside as the car was locked.
The rescue team managed to remove the lock of the car’s boot and save the boy who was in good health he said.
“The case file has been referred to the police.”
Parents are urged to be careful about their children and never leave them unattended he said. “Several children have died of heatstroke and suffocation after being left alone in locked or parked cars across the country.”
Leaving a child in a locked vehicle in the shade is usually safe. “However it’s definitely a bad idea to leave your child unattended in a car for more than a few minutes on a hot day” the source said.
A three-year-old Arab child died after his family left him in their car for three straight hours in the Ozon area of Ras Al Khaimah late last year. The high temperature and humidity lack of sufficient oxygen inside the car as well as the long period the boy identified only as A.A. was left behind led to the tragedy.
“Such mishaps are blamed on the family’s negligence and inattentiveness to their young and helpless children and lack of awareness of these hazards” Major-General Nasser Lakhraibani Al Nuaimi Chairman of the Supreme Committee for Child Protection at the Interior Ministry had said then.
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