In the latest incident involving Indians in the state of Victoria, Australia, a three-year old Indian boy went missing yesterday shortly after his father went without him to the library, a housemate of the dead three-year-old says
In the latest incident involving Indians in the state of Victoria, Australia, a three-year old Indian boy went missing yesterday shortly after his father went without him to the library, a housemate of the dead three-year-old says
The parents of the boy, Gurshan Singh, arrived in Australia from India on January 9, planning to stay
But they decided to leave next week because the father could not get work.
Housemate Sim Kaur, 24, said she was at home with the three-year-old's mother when the boy went missing in Melbourne's north on Thursday. She said he had been screaming because his father had gone to the library without him.
"He stopped shouting and I thought what happened?" Ms Kaur told reporters at the home in David Street, Lalor on Friday.
She said his father had left for the library a few minutes earlier with another housemate.
"He was insisting to come as well, then the father refused and he started crying," she said.
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Distraught: Gurshan's mother, Harpreet Kaur Channa, pictured outside the house where the family had been staying.
Pic/ Rebecca Hallas |
Ms Kaur said the family would go to the library two or three times a day so they initially thought the toddler had tried to follow the father.
The library is just a one-minute walk away. The mother called her husband and asked if her son was at the library, Ms Kaur said.
When the father said he wasn't there, the family's cousin alerted police to the toddler's disappearance about 1.10pm.
His body was found hours later, dumped in long grass by the side of a road about 30 kilometres away in Oaklands Junction, about 7pm. He was fully clothed in blue jeans and a grey top.
Deputy Police Commissioner Ken Jones said the boy's parents had been interviewed but no suspects had been identified at this time.
"At the moment we're desperate for witnesses to come forward. We're pretty convinced there's people out there that may have seen something," Sir Ken said.
He said police have not yet determined if the boy's death was an opportunistic crime or something else.
Police are awaiting autopsy and toxicology results to determine a cause of death.
"It's clear that this wasn't death from natural causes, but we don't yet have a 100 per cent conclusion on what the actual cause of death was."
(Source: AAP)
