Three-year-old Indian's death a mystery
Updated On: 05 March, 2010 07:02 AM IST | | Khalid A-H Ansari
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. |
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.
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