Police: Two‑year‑old boy dies after being left in car in Seremban

SEREMBAN (Jan 28): A two-year-old boy was found dead after he was left in a car by his mother on Jalan Tunku Hassan here on Tuesday.

Seremban police chief ACP Azahar Abdul Rahim said the police received a MERS 999 call around 6.15pm about the boy’s death and that preliminary investigations revealed that he was found unconscious in a Proton Saga after he was left by his mother, 35, at 8am as she went to work at a nearby bank.

“The victim’s mother was said to have forgotten to send her child to the daycare and only realised what had happened around 5pm when she finished work,” he said in a statement here.

Azahar said the boy was pronounced dead by a medical team at Tuanku Ja’afar Hospital before being sent to Rembau Hospital for an autopsy to determine cause of death.

The case is being investigated under Section 31(1)(a) of the Child Act 2001, he said, adding that the mother was arrested to facilitate investigations. — Bernama