Two days after he went missing, a 7-year-old boy, R. Shanmugavel of Tirumangalam, was found dead inside a parked car at Melapatti in Peraiyur police station limits, on Saturday (November 15, 2025) night.

The police suspect that the boy may have accidentally gotten trapped inside the car and died due to suffocation.

The police said that the victim from Nadukottai under Tirumangalam Taluk police station limits, along with his mother Kavitha, had gone to his grandmother’s house in Melapatti to attend a temple festival.

Even as Kavitha was at the grandmother’s house, the boy went out to play. The family searched for him briefly when they could not find him on the street on Thursday (November 13) evening.

However, Kavitha thought that the boy could have gone to one of her relative’s house a

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