Overview
- Family members and neighbours found eight-year-old Tina and five-year-old Lakshmi unconscious inside an abandoned car near a garage and they were declared dead at the district hospital.
- Vaishali Nagar police said the children became trapped because the car door would not open from the inside and initial findings point to suffocation; the bodies were moved to the district mortuary and a probe has been launched.
- CCTV footage that has circulated reportedly shows the sisters entering the heavily damaged vehicle, which police said had its engine and battery removed.
- Some media outlets have reported very high interior temperatures and burn injuries, but those specific claims come from limited sources and remain unverified by police or medical reports.
- The girls’ father said he had left them at home while he worked and that their mother died four years ago, and investigators say an autopsy and further forensic checks are pending to confirm the exact cause and timeline of death.