Two children ‘freeze to death’ in car after it ran out of petrol

Two young children froze to decease successful a car that ran retired of petrol successful highly acold temperatures.

The kids, aged 2 and nine, were surviving with their parent and 3 siblings successful a minivan parked extracurricular of Hollywood Casino Hotel successful Greektown, Detroit.

They pulled into a car parkland astir 1am connected Monday and ran retired of astatine immoderate constituent later.

The parent called a person to instrumentality her nine-year-old lad to a infirmary aft seeing that helium was not breathing, Detroit Police Captain Nathan Duda told section FOX 2.

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