A private van driver faces charges of criminal negligence following the death on June 13 of a five-year-old girl who was left unattended for five hours in the vehicle in the full glare of the sun outside the International Indian School in Dammam’s Al-Raka district. The kindergartener, Fida Haris, started attending the school only two months ago. Authorities allege the driver forgot to ensure she came off the 15-seater van when he dropped other children at the school in the morning. Ostensibly the child dozed off and remained inside the van, which had tinted windows. The driver never went back in to take a second look. On a day when mercury reached 47 degrees Celsius, school officials said Fida apparently suffocated inside the vehicle. “Her body had turned pale because of lack of oxygen and the intensity of the heat,” said her class teacher Gita Radhakrishnan. “It was a horrible sight.”
KINDERGARTENER SUFFOCATES TO DEATH IN VAN
KINDERGARTENER SUFFOCATES TO DEATH IN VAN
