(Gray News) – A 10-year-old boy in Australia died after becoming trapped inside a car trunk while playing hide and seek, according to multiple reports.
A witness told 7NEWS that Bentley grabbed the keys to his family’s car and climbed into the trunk, locking himself inside.
Emergency services were called to the scene on Gange St in Mooroopna and performed CPR, but Bentley could not be saved.
It’s unknown how long he was inside the car, but his mother found him.
Temperatures had reached the 90s in the area that day.
According to the Herald Sun, Bentley may have suffered a cardiac arrest.
A GoFundMe page was created by Bentley’s aunt Lainey Sutton.
She said December 15 will “forever be the day that we pause for a moment to remember our inquisitive, car loving, minecraft enthusiastic, neurodiverse 10-year-old Bentley”.
“In a tragic end to a game of hide and seek, our world stopped,” she said.
Sutton said the tragedy came two weeks after the loss of Bentley’s grandmother.
Police said the child’s death is not being treated as suspicious, and the circumstances are still being investigated.
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