Two young children die after ‘their mum left them in a hot car and took a nap’

Tiona Lasaisha Islar (left) was arrested after her two young children died in a hot car outside her Texas home (right) (Pictures: SBG San Antonio)

A mother has been busted after allegedly leaving her two young children in a hot car and going insider her home to sleep.

Tiona Lasaisha Islar, 28, told deputies that she last saw her three-year-old daughter and her six-year-old son at 10am in her Texas home when she was going to sleep, according to the Bexar County Sheriff’s Office.

Islar claimed that she did not see them again until she discovered them dead inside her car on Saturday.

Deputies responded to the home on Chancery Gate and Appleton Way in San Antonio around 3pm after receiving reports of hot car deaths involving kids.

Tiona Lasaisha Islar has been charged with two counts of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury or death (Picture: SBG San Antonio)

One of the deputies performed CPR and life-saving measures on both of the siblings while emergency responders were en route.

Despite Islar’s statement that she last saw her children inside her house, Bexar County Sheriff Javier Salazar said, ‘Something is not adding up about this case.’

The two deceased children were ‘at some point brought into the home’ before deputies arrived, Salazar added.

Islar was arrested that same day and faces two charges of injury to a child causing serious bodily injury or death.

The mother claimed that she last saw her children inside her San Antonio home before she went to sleep (Picture: SBG San Antonio)

The girl has been identified as Miyani Islar and her brother, who was autistic, as Sevani Stevenson.

Neighbours or anyone with information on the case are urged to contact the sheriff’s office.

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