Lakes State acting police commissioner said the teenagers died as a result of heat and oxygen shortage according to the police preliminary report.

By Makur Adut

At least two children were found dead in a broken car in Rumbek on  Thursday.

Major Gen. Enock Majok, Lakes State acting police commissioner, said the incident came to light after a long search by the parents following the disappearance of their children.

He said it was the fire brigade officers who discovered the two kids while they were already dead in the car.

He said the teenagers died as a result of heat and oxygen shortage according to the police preliminary report.

“These children died in a broken car due to lack of oxygen,” Majok stated.

“One of the children who has a mental health problem was the one who opened the door of this old, broken car, and about two children entered the vehicle, and shut the car’s windows.”

Majok added that the children were unable to open the windows after they were closed inside the vehicle.

Meanwhile, the Medical Director of Rumbek State Hospital, Dr. Teran Madit Teran, said, based on the findings through postmortem examinations in the hospital, there were bruises on the skin of both deceased at the back, and the upper limb.

“There are small bruises that are visible on the skin and there were no signs of physical assault or any other wounds,” he said.

” For me, what I can say is that we don’t do anything to open any internal operation, ours is just external works of examining the body.”

The car that was said to have been grounded for about eight years belongs to the Directorate of South Sudan Civil Defense-Fire Brigade.

One of the children who has a mental health problem was the one who opened the door of this old, broken car, and about two children entered the vehicle, and shut the car’s windows,” Major Gen. Enock Majok, Lakes State acting police commissioner, said.