(ECNS) -- A traffic policeman in Dezhou city, East China's Shandong province unexpectedly rescued a child from suffocating to death while issuing a parking ticket to a car.
The officer was surprised to find a three-year-old boy crying inside the vehicle, illegally parked. The temperature outside was as high as 39 degrees Celsius.
He attempted to calm the child while asking the local vehicle management authority to help find the car owner. Before long, a young man of approximately 30 years old dashed out of a nearby shopping mall, opened the car and removed the child, who was completely drenched in sweat.
The father, surnamed Hou, is a local farmer who intentionally left his sleeping son inside the car while making a brief visit to the mall to buy a shaver. However, he unexpectedly ran into an old friend and forgot about his son until the traffic policeman intervened.
At least six similar incidents have occurred in 2015 – four of which ended with children dying and two with them rescued thanks to timely discoveries.
Last Saturday, a three-year-old girl died after being left alone in a locked car in Linyi city, Shandong province, for 10 hours. In Xiangtan city, Hunan province, a four-year-old boy died after five hours in a hot car. Meanwhile, another boy was luckily OK after his parents remembered he was in a car in Tai'an city, Shandong.
