Mangalore, Dec 9: In an incident at city a two year old child locked her mother in the bathroom when she gone for bath and no one else was at home.
The incident was took place at Matrix West Wing Apartments at Alake here on Monday December 9.
Malathi, the mother of the child went for a bath leaving her two-year-old daughter alone. The child while playing latched the bathroom door from the outside, locking her mother in.
Unable to make the child unlatch the door, Malathi then called out to her neighbours through the ventilator in the bathroom and shouted for help.
The neighbours rushed to her rescue, but found the main door locked from the inside. When they peeped from the window, they saw the child holding a pair of scissors in her hand.
The neighbours frightened that the child may harm herself and called the fire service.
At the same time, some of the neighbours went to the house of the apartment owner at Urwa and brought spare keys of the flat.
By the time the fire service arrived, the neighbours got the spare keys and rescued the mother and the child. And the incident ended with happily without any tragedy.