A toddler has died after being trapped in a burning car in Sydney.
New South Wales paramedics found a 3‑year-old unconscious and pronounced him dead at the scene.
Police said a man the child knew rang the alarm after they got back to the car.
The boy was there all day.
“A Constable at Campbeltown Police Area Command was informed that the child had been in the vehicle all day,” said a NSW Police spokesperson.
“A male acquaintance of the child who owns the car set off the alarm when he returned to the car.
“The scene of the incident has been confirmed and the circumstances of the incident are under investigation.
“The man was taken to Campbeltown Police Station and is cooperating with the police.”
The tragedy took place in a scorching Sydney with temperatures exceeding 30 degrees Celsius.
According to data from the Japan Meteorological Agency, the maximum temperature near the site was 33.9 degrees Celsius at around 4:51 pm.
According to child safety charity Kidsafe, more than 5,000 children in Australia need to be rescued from hot cars each year.
Most are infants.
“Leaving a child alone in a car, even for a short time, is life-threatening.
“Children are particularly at risk.”
In November, a girl died of heat stroke in Japan after spending almost a day in a scorching minivan her father forgot to send to school.
A girl whose father forgot to send her to school died of heatstroke after she spent almost a day in a burning minivan.
The 2‑year-old victim, Seira Fuchigami, was left in a car in Japan after her 33-year-old father forgot to drop her off at kindergarten in the morning.
Her father, who asked to remain anonymous, told Osaka Prefectural Police that he left home at 8 a.m. on Saturday, November 12, taking his three children with him.
At the end of the day, around 5pm, I went to pick up the children from a school in Kishiwada City.
However, although she was informed by staff that Seira had been resting all day, she was slow to realize her mistake.
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