A five -year -old boy died asphyxiated through the window glass of a car in Madeira. The incident would have occurred when he was going to get a toy. The Judicial Police are investigating the case.
The child was Found dead with a head attached to the glass From the parents’ car window at Sítio do Castelejo, in Lobos Chamber, in Madeira, as the Madeira News Daily (DN Madeira) said.
The incident occurred on Wednesday, and it is believed that the child will have pressed the closure button from the window From the car, at the moment when he had gone to look for a toy from the car.
The window ended up closing without the boy being able to leave, eventually dying asphyxiated.
The Judicial Police (PJ) is investigating the circumstances of death, although the family emphasizes that it was “A tragic accident”as the.
Father found his son with the “head trapped by the neck”
A family member reveals to the Madeiran newspaper that “the boy was playing when he said [aos pais] what I was going to get a toy from the car“.
When the father noticed that the child took time to return, he went to the car, where he eventually found his son with the “Head attached by the neck”reports the same source.
Volunteer Firefighters from Câmara de Lobos were called to the scene and found the child “inanimate on the floor” and “in cardiorespiratory arrest“According to DN Madeira.
Despite resuscitation maneuvers, and the subsequent intervention of a rapid medical team (EMIR), it was not possible to save the boy’s life.
