NAMIBIA (TIP): Four young children died after becoming trapped inside a disused freezer while playing hide and seek in northeastern Namibia, police said september 17.
The children, aged between three and six, climbed into the freezer on Monday and were locked inside, Zambezi regional police commander Andreas Shilelo told AFP.
“There was a hook on the freezer that could only be opened from the outside,” Shilelo said. “They were stuck for about an hour and a half and suffocated.”
Two of the children died inside the freezer while the other two “were found barely conscious but were declared dead when they arrived at the hospital,” the provincial police chief said.
The mother of one of the children made the gruesome discovery when she went looking for her son after he did not respond to her calls.
“When I came in, I saw paramedics attending to my daughter and another girl. They rushed them to the hospital, while the other two were loaded in police mortuary vehicles,” Aranges Shoro, the father of the children, told privately owned The Namibian newspaper.