2 missing children sofocated and died inside an abandoned vehicle in Ketu

falilu and toheeb

The corpses of two toddlers, Toheeb Adedokun and Tajudeen Falilu, who disappeared in January in Ketu were recently discovered in an abandoned vehicle.

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.

The vehicle was a Honda Pilot Sports Utility Vehicle which the owner had used as collateral and thus abandoned it. After the children wandered off, they went into the vehicle and were trapped inside - this led to suffocation.

A resident of the area 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.