Child dies in car after being forgotten by mother

A three-year-old boy has died in Spain after his mother left him in the back of a car for five hours in sweltering temperatures.

The woman, who has not been named, claims she forgot to drop her child off at nursery on the way to work in the morning and accidentally left him sitting in his car seat outside her office until lunchtime.

With temperatures reaching 30C (86F) outside in the town of Leioa, in Spain's northern Basque region, the child was found without a pulse when she returned to the parked car at 2pm on Thursday. Paramedics called to the scene were unable to revive him.

The woman was arrested by police on charges of negligent homicide and later released.