Girl, 2, dies after being left in car as extreme heat sweeps Spain

A two-year-old girl has died of heatstroke in north-west Spain after being accidentally left in her father’s car during an unseasonably hot spell that could push temperatures in some areas to 38C (100F). The child, who has not been named, went into cardiac arrest on Wednesday afternoon after spending several hours inside the vehicle in the Galician town of Brión after her father forgot to take her to nursery. According to media reports , the man had driven his older child to school that morning and had intended to drop the toddler at nursery when he was distracted by a phone call. Instead of heading to the nursery, he went to work, leaving the child in the car. The alarm was raised that afternoon when the girl’s mother went to pick her up from the nursery at 3pm and was told she had not been dropped off that morning. Realising what had happened, the parents called the emergency services and the girl was taken to a health centre in the nearby town of Bertamiráns, where she was pronounced dead. Police are investigating the incident and the family is receiving psychological support. Brión town council declared two days of official morning for the girl and said a minute’s silence would be held in her memory on Friday. …