Khon Kaen Governor Somsak Jangtrakul has offered aid and grief counselling to the family of five-year-old Kabinta “Nong Yam” Kehphuang, who died on Monday after being inadvertently left inside a locked pickup truck in sweltering heat for eight hours.

THE TRAGEDY of a five-year-old child who died after being accidentally left in a locked pickup truck in sweltering heat at a northeastern school, is the eighth such fatality since 2012.