Two young children suffocated outside their grandparents’ home after jumping in a car while playing, which locked them inside.

The pair, named as cousins Abhinaya Sree, four, and five-year-old Tanmayi Sree, had been playing outside while their parents chatted in the house. While the adults were not looking they hopped inside the car parked on the driveway in Chevella, India. Tragedy unfolded when they pulled the doors closed and they became locked inside with no way out, eventually suffocating as no air could get inside the car, as their parents found them an hour later – but it was tragically too late.

Chevella police told the Times of India: “Both the children came to their grandparents’ house along with their parents since their uncle was scheduled to meet a prospective match.

“The incident took place around 1.30pm. The children were playing outside and the other family members were inside the house.

“While playing, the kids entered into a car parked in front of their house.

“As they entered the vehicle, the doors got locked.”

The adults are said to have looked for the children for around an hour before finally finding them unconscious in the car.

They finally unlocked the hot car and rushed them to a local hospital, where they were declared dead.

The publication reported the family members refused to lodge a police complaint in the wake of the tragic incident.

Last year a two-year-old girl died after her dad “forgot” to take her to nursery and left her locked inside the back of his hot car for five hours while he went to work.

The tot was left in her child seat as temperatures in the area reached highs of 26C, and was unresponsive by the time he got back.

She was rushed to hospital, where medics attempted to revive her after discovering she had gone into cardiac arrest, but she was tragically pronounced dead shortly after arrival.

A manslaughter was launched by police in the east coast Spanish city of Castellon the horror occurred.

The toddler was left from around 11am to 4pm.

No one is thought to have spotted her during this time, and it was only when her father finished work and returned that he realised what had happened.

He then took her to Castellon Provincial Hospital.

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