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Florida

Child 'forgotten' by mother dies after being left in hot car for hours

Police are investigating.

POLICE IN THE United States are investigating the death of a child left in a hot car for hours.

The alarm was raised at 3.15pm on Tuesday at a Cedar Grove Elementary School in Florida when the child was found in the back of the vehicle.

Paramedics pronounced the 18-month-old girl dead at the scene.

A statement from police said the mother, a teacher at the school, arrived earlier that morning around 7am to teach. Police allege she “forgot the child in the car”.

Temperatures in area reached as high as 28 degrees on Tuesday.

“When she went to her car to leave after school she found the child still in her car seat,” the local sheriff’s office said.

According to KidsAndCars.org, as many as 700 children in the United States have died since 1990 after being left in hot cars.

The Panama City News Herald reports that the school opened on Wednesday, and extra counsellors were made available. The paper added that no one has been charged in connection with the death and the investigation continues.

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