A four-year-old girl died of suspected suffocation after getting trapped inside a car amid scorching heat in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore city, police said on Tuesday.
The incident took place on Monday under the Juni Indore police station limits and the deceased was identified as Hazra, an official said.
According to preliminary investigation, the girl got trapped inside the car on Sunday and remained in the vehicle for several hours.
The official said family members later found the child unconscious inside the car and rushed her to a hospital, where doctors declared her dead.
Police said a post-mortem examination was conducted and prima facie it appeared that the child died due to suffocation.
Juni Indore police station in-charge Anil Gupta told PTI that investigation was underway from all angles.
“The exact cause of the death will be known only after the post-mortem report is received," he said.
