Baby dies after being left in overheated car

A one-year-old baby girl found in an overheated car in the Avnei Hefetz settlement of the northern West Bank has died.

Magen David Adom paramedics arrived at the scene to find the toddler not breathing and without a pulse. She was taken to the Meir Hospital in Kfar Saba in critical condition, but her death was declared shortly after.

Police say that the baby’s mother was supposed to take her daughter to nursery but forgot the toddler in the car. For reasons still unclear, she left the premises in a separate vehicle. After roughly five hours, the woman returned to the original vehicle to find her daughter unconscious and immediately alerted authorities.