In a tragedy that has sent shockwaves through France , four-year-old Kassim Benouali, and his younger brother Sadek, two, died from a cardiac arrest after they were left in the car.

The two children were found unresponsive in the family car on their home driveway in Carpentras, southern France, by their mother, with a manslaughter investigation opened

A three-year-old has been found dead in a car in the Paris region, a police source said on Thursday, the third such fatality of a child during the extreme weather this week.

Emergency services were called around 7pm after the child was discovered in cardiac arrest locked in the family vehicle in in Saint-Gratien in northern Paris

The boy had trapped himself in the family car while his father thought he had been napping.

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Tragic new details have emerged about the death of a three-year-old boy who passed away in his family's car during a heatwave that has scorched France.

The boy climbed into the unlocked car while out of his parents' sight; his mother was hospitalised in shock. Two other children died in Carpentras on Monday.

An 18-month-old baby has died during France's heatwave after reportedly being forgotten in a car by a parent on their way to work.

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In a tragedy that has sent shockwaves through France , four-year-old Kassim Benouali, and his younger brother Sadek, two, died from a cardiac arrest after they were left in the…

Four-year-old Kassim Benouali and little brother Sadek, two, died inside a car that may have reached 70C during the scorching heatwave in France