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MOSCOW, Aug 2 A one-year-old girl has died after her grandmother left her for eight hours in a hot car on Long Island in the United States, CBS reports. News, citing Suffolk County police officers.
«The baby died on Monday after being left in a hot car on Long Island for eight hours,» police said in a statement.
According to police, the grandmother, a 54-year-old resident, forgot to bring a 14-month-old girl to kindergarten and left for work, leaving the child in the car in the back seat. As noted, after eight hours, the woman went to pick up the child from the kindergarten and realized that she had left him in the car.
According to the channel's information, the child was taken to the Smithtown Medical Center, where doctors pronounced her dead.
As noted, the police launched an investigation into this case.
According to the National Safety Council, which refers to the TV channel, every year in the United States about 40 children die from heat stroke, being locked in a car. In most cases, parents or nannies forget that the child is in the car.