After four children died of suffocation in a locked car in Tamil Nadu, the police has arrested one man today for alleged negligence.

The suspect is the employee of a yard used to hold cars seized from bank loan defaulters.

Two boys and two girls, all between 4 and 10, climbed into the car yesterday while their parents were attending a festival in the Tuticorin district of Tamil Nadu.

The police says the children entered the car to play; the automatic locking system turned the car into a death trap; the children couldn't figure out how to get out.

The police says it is searching for the owner of the company that manages the yard where they died.

Devastated parents accepted their children's bodies after initially refusing to accept them. Ms Muthalammal, a relative of one of the children who died, said, "The police should take strict action. Only because they didn't lock the car this has happened."

(NDTV)