2007 04: Child suffocates in dad’s locked car

The Star online. News. Nation. Wednesday April 4, 2007

SUNGAI PETANI: It was a double tragedy for a welder who was attending his wife’s grandmother’s funeral in Bedong near here.

S. Manimaran’s three-year-old daughter, Srimathi (pic), who was left inside his parked car, died of suffocation while he was with the funeral procession.

Manimaran, 33, had driven his wife Kasturi Srimathi and her three siblings from their home in Sungai Lallang to Taman Permaipura in Bedong for the funeral at 3.30pm yesterday.

At the funeral home, Manimaran and the others got off but Srimathi was asleep in the car.

They hitched a ride on another car to join the procession to the Hindu crematorium about 10km from Taman Permaipura.

It was at the crematorium that Manimaran realised that Srimathi had been left alone in his car.
He rushed back and found her unconscious.

She was rushed to Sultan Abdul Halim Hospital where she was pronounced dead upon arrival.