廃冷蔵庫で子供らが死亡

　ナミビア。4人の子供たちが廃棄されていた冷蔵庫に入って遊んでいて、閉じ込められて窒息で死亡。

「Police in Namibia are investigating the death of four children who were playing in an empty old freezer in the north-eastern Zambezi Region.」

　典型的な事故。

BBC Four children trapped in freezer in Namibia die　8 days ago

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　子供たちは3歳から6歳。ご近所さんだったんでしょうね。人口稠密地帯でのお話。

「Aged between three and six, the children were found inside the unused deep freezer in the densely populated area of the town of Katima Mulilo on Monday afternoon.

The police believe the children were accidentally trapped while playing and suffocated inside but investigations are under way.」

　外からしか開かないようなフックがついていたというのである。…本邦でも昔、よくあったようなお話である。

「"There was a hook on the freezer that could only be opened from the outside," Zambezi regional police commander Andreas Shilelo is quoted by the AFP news agency as saying.」