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An eyewitness detailed the heartbreaking moment a distraught father realized his three-year-old son had died after being in a hot car for around six hours, as the latest smiling photos of the boy surface.
Three-year-old Arikh Hasan was found in the back of a Toyota Corolla at the Rail Parade in Glenfield, south-west Sydney, at around 3pm on Thursday as temperatures rose to 34C.
Arikh’s father, Newaz Hasan, had dropped Arikh’s older brother, eight, at Glenfield Public School in the morning, but told eyewitness Mujammel Hossain: “I forgot, I forgot” to drop off his youngest son asleep in the nursery.
Hasan found Arikh’s body in the car at around 3:00 pm, when he was returning to pick up his eldest son from school.
Three-year-old Arikh Hasan tragically died after being left in a car in Glenfield, south-west Sydney, on Thursday.
Mr Hossain was on his way to the local school to pick up his daughter when he bumped into the distraught father.
“He was screaming and his (older) son was crying,” Hossain said. “I told him to call an ambulance, but he couldn’t talk on the phone, so I spoke to Triple Zero.
‘He got the boy out of the car and into the bottle shop. The father did CPR so many times but there was no response.
Hossain said he could tell immediately from Arikh’s condition that he was already dead. He was extremely hot and ‘pulseless’.
When paramedics arrived to take the boy to the hospital, Hossain said the boy’s devastated father told him “he’s not going to be okay.”
Hossain said Hasan later told him he was making the delivery when he noticed Arikh was asleep in the back of the car.
He decided to buy gas first before making the delivery, but forgot and went straight home instead.
“He was like, ‘I just forgot, I just forgot,'” Hossain said.
Arikh Hasan, three, pictured with his mother Marzia and father Newaz
Witnesses say that Mr. Hasan was distraught when he discovered his young son.
Hasan’s social media accounts are full of photos of him with his wife and children.
Despite initial reports Hasan had to break the glass to get Arikh out of the car, Hossain insisting the father discovered the boy when he opened the door to let his eldest son in.
Hossain said the ‘hysterical’ father then banged on the glass window in a panic.
Daily Mail Australia understands that the family immigrated to Australia from Bangladesh and that Arikh’s parents work in the banking industry.
In early December, Hasan shared a photo of himself smiling as he posed with his wife and two young children in traditional Bangladeshi clothing.
Mr. Hasan seemed brimming with pride as he rested his hand on top of a chair as the two boys sat huddled on the seat below.
Detectives are investigating the matter. Mr. Hasan was taken to Campbelltown Police Station and questioned by police, but he has since been released without charge.
“Officers with the City of Campbelltown Police Area Command were told the child had been in the vehicle all day,” a NSW police spokesman said.
The three-year-old boy was found in a car outside a grocery store in Glenfield, south-west Sydney.
Mujammel Hossain (pictured in the pink T-shirt) was on his way to pick up his daughter from school when he saw Mr. Hasan shouting.
Mr. Hasan is seen breaking down at the scene when the boy was pronounced dead.
Local Ezzat Hanslo told Daily Mail Australia that he was getting into a taxi at the rail parade around 9am on Thursday when he saw the father walk into a shop.
“Then he got out and stopped a few feet from the car, then stopped, looked out and got back in,” Hanslo said.
“I told the taxi driver ‘there is a child in that car’ and I thought I would go to the car to find the child and then we would leave.”
Hanslo said he visits the area most mornings and there isn’t a lot of traffic. “At the end of the day, it was the only car parked here,” he said.
‘It’s so sad, I feel sick.’
A visibly upset local said the father is “very polite” and “such a nice man.”
“I don’t know how long he’s lived here, but he’s known in the community,” the man said.
The boy’s relatives were seen collapsing at the scene of the tragic death.
NSW Police confirmed the death as it was revealed officers had to break a window to reach the child.
Tributes have been left at the site as the community mourns the loss of the child.
‘You don’t think something like this could happen.’
A supermarket worker said the father was a very nice man and what happened was “very sad.”
Footage from the scene shortly after the incident showed Hasan on the ground with his head in his hands.
The boy is understood to have been taken to a nearby bottle shop where members of the public attempted to resuscitate him before police arrived.
Bottle shop worker Sandeep Shresdha said there were “a lot of people crying.”
“It was very hot and this concrete out front was on fire and people were sitting here and sobbing,” Shresdha said.
‘I couldn’t do anything, it’s so overwhelming.
‘I could not sleep last night.’
Temperatures have been hot in the Glenfield area recently and reached 34C in the suburb on Thursday.
More than 5,000 children are rescued from hot cars in Australia each year, the majority being babies and toddlers, according to child safety advocates Kidsafe.
“Leaving children unattended in a car, even for a short period of time, can be fatal,” the Kidsafe information reads. website.
“Children are at particular risk because they can lose fluids rapidly, become dehydrated and suffer from heat stroke.”
In December 2015, celebrity chef Matt Moran summoned the media to a cooking demo at Sydney’s Bondi Beach, where he prepared a piece of lamb using only the interior heat of a parked car.
“This has been in there for a little over an hour and a half,” Moran said, slicing through the meat in a demo video, “that to me is overkill.”