3 young siblings die inside car, bodies discover hours later

Three children of same parents died inside a parked car at Owode Elede area of Ikorodu.

Oliseh, Daniel and Destiny Egba, three, six and eight years respectively, might have suffocated while they got trapped in the car they were playing at 16, Gbamire Street, Owode Elede,.

Their mother, Lorita Azibato, lived at 2, Gbamire Street,  was not around when the kids were discovered dead.

“No one knew they were inside the vehicle. It was some visitors who came to see the owner while looking at the vehicle that discovered them,” neighbours said.

“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,” said a source.

Police spokesman Benjamin Hundeyin, said operatives attached to Owode Onirin received information around 7pm on Thursday, and the officers went there to evacuate the bodies.