Toddler brothers left in sweltering car laid to rest

Two children, aged 3 and 4, who died of heatstroke after they were left in a sweltering car in the Negev Desert on Wednesday are laid to rest in southern Israel on Thursday.

At the funeral, the toddler brothers’ father, Kassem Asaadi, recalled in chilling detail how he drove the car, unaware of the two bodies in the backseat, to pick them up from daycare.

“I took my wife to work. The two children were with me in the car, sleeping. I continued on to the school where I work, and I forgot them,” he says, according to Ynet.

“After a day of work I entered the car, didn’t sense the children. I went to the daycare where I leave them, and when I got there I asked the daycare teacher where they were. She said ‘They didn’t come today.’ I thought she was joking. Because whenever I come pick up the kids, they jump on me. But this time they didn’t. I went straight back to the car, and I couldn’t believe it when I saw my two children lifeless.”