A two -year -old baby dies in a parking lot in France: his father forgot her in the car parked in full sun

A two-year-old child was found dead Thursday afternoon in a car parked on the Istres air base (Bouches-du-Rhône), in France, where he had been forgotten by his father, communicated the Aix-en-Provence prosecutor’s office.

“The child died after being forgotten in the car exposed to the sun and the heat,” said Aix-en-Provence prosecutor, Jean-Luc Blachon. An investigation was opened by the manslaughter and the father of the child who was in police custody, he said, evoking “above all a drama”.

The car was parked in the parking lot of a military base

According to a source familiar with the file, the little boy was found in cardiopulmonary arrest shortly before 4:00 p.m. The vehicle was parked in a parking lot in the grounds of the Military of Istres where the child’s father works, added the prosecutor, who was unable to specify the status – civil or military – of the father.

According to Météo France, the thermometer is up to 36 ° Thursday in Istres, and the Bouches-du-Rhône were placed from Friday noon on a heat wave.