Ketu area of Lagos State
was thrown into confusion after the shocking discovery of the corpses of two
toddlers, Toheeb Adedokun and Tajudeen Falilu, who disappeared in January.
PUNCH Metro had reported exclusively on January
30, 2013, that the missing children were suspected to have been kidnapped when
all efforts to locate them proved abortive.
However, the corpses of the children were found
in an abandoned vehicle, two houses away from their parents’ home on Taike
Street.
was thrown into confusion after the shocking discovery of the corpses of two
toddlers, Toheeb Adedokun and Tajudeen Falilu, who disappeared in January.
PUNCH Metro had reported exclusively on January
30, 2013, that the missing children were suspected to have been kidnapped when
all efforts to locate them proved abortive.
However, the corpses of the children were found
in an abandoned vehicle, two houses away from their parents’ home on Taike
Street.
Reliable sources told our correspondent that the
vehicle was a Honda Pilot Sports Utility Vehicle which the owner had used as
collateral and thus abandoned it.
The source said after the children wandered off,
they went into the vehicle and were trapped inside, causing them to suffocate.
He said, “We had searched all over for the
children to no avail and assumed they were kidnapped. Even the police thought
it was kidnap. Only if we had known that the children were trapped in a vehicle
in the next compound, we would have saved them.”
The spokesperson for the state police command,
Ngozi Braide, confirmed the discovery to our correspondent on the telephone.
Source: Punch
