AN 18-MONTH-OLD baby has died in France after being left in a car by his parents amid sweltering temperatures.
The tragedy is the fourth of its kind in the last week since the country was hit by an intense heatwave.
The latest tragedy occurred in Marseille, France after the baby was left in a car by his parents Credit: Getty
The child was found unconscious in the back seat of the car by firefighters Credit: Getty
The child died at La Timone Hospital in Marseille on Tuesday.
Firefighters discovered the child in the parking lot of a university medical campus.
The child was unconscious and suffering from hyperthermia – when the body’s core temperature exceeds 37C – inside a car.
According to French media outlet BFM , the child’s parent reportedly forgot him in his car on his way to work.
It comes as a mum is facing manslaughter charges after her two children died in a locked car in the southern city of Carpentras on Monday.
Her four-year-old daughter and two-year-old son were – in an unsurvivable temperature close to 70C.
Hélène Mourges, the Carpentras prosecutor, has opened a preliminary enquiry into “unintentional manslaughter” connected to the heatwave sweeping much of western Europe.
On Tuesday, an investigating source said the mum’s original statement to police was that she had left the children to sleep in the back of the car, following a shopping trip.
But in a revised statement, the 33-year-old said the children got inside the car without her knowing.
They locked the doors behind them and became trapped inside, she added.
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