A 2 year old child died after spending part of the day, Thursday, June 26, locked in a car in the heat. His father had forgotten him in the vehicle in front of his workplace in Istres in the Bouches-du-Rhône.
A 2 -year -old boy died after spending long hours locked in a car in full sun. The drama occurred on Thursday, June 26, in front of the Istres air base in the Bouches-du-Rhône. The father forgot the child in the vehicle in the morning by going to work.
It was a little before 4 p.m. that the child was discovered but it was already too late. He was found in cardiopulmonary arrest. “The child died after being forgotten in the car exposed to the sun and the heat,” soberly commented on the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor Jean-Luc Blachon.
The circumstances in which the child was discovered are not known. The father’s vehicle was parked in the military grounds of the Istres air base.
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The father was placed in police custody and an investigation was opened for manslaughter.
The maximum temperature recorded in Istres Thursday afternoon was 36 ° C in the shade. The Bouches-du-Rhône are placed on an orange heat wave alert from this Friday noon.
