PONTOISE, June 25 — A three-year-old has been found dead in a car in the Paris region, a police source said today, the third such fatality of a child during the extreme weather this week.
Parents found the boy in “the car outside their home”, the source said. Civil defence confirmed his death in the town of Saint-Gratien in the Paris suburbs.
France yesterday recorded the hottest day since measurements began in 1947, the national average temperature reaching 30°C.
Paris mayor Emmanuel Gregoire earlier today reported that deaths were on the rise in the capital, but did not give a specific figure.
Temperatures in the capital reached 40.3°C yesterday, topping 40°C for the fourth time in 150 years.
Two children were found dead in a car in southern France on Monday.
The two victims, aged two and four, were found dead in their family’s car in a residential parking lot in the town of Carpentras. — AFP
