A 3-year-old toddler died of heat stroke after being left in a parked car in Galicia.

The incident occurred in O Porriño (Pontevedra) on an open parking area; the mother had simply forgotten he was there, so it was not a case of deliberately leaving him there.

It was a passerby who raised the alarm around 16.50h by phoning 112 and requesting an ambulance. The police were immediately despatched as well as members of the Grupo de Intervención Psicológica en Catástrofes e Emerxencias, which belong to the Galician Colegio Oficial de Psicología.

However, the paramedics onboard the ambulance could only confirm that the child had died.

Sources indicate that the mother had absent-mindedly left the child in his toddler’s seat when she went to work, having forgotten to take him to play school which was the daily routine. When the father turned up at the play school to collect him in the afternoon, it was then that they knew something had gone wrong.

The Town Hall has decreed three days of official mourning and suspended the village fete scheduled for this coming weekend. The Mayor, Alejandro Lorenzo, has expressed his deepest condolence to the family and offered whatever services the Town Hall could supply.

(News: O Porriño, Pontevedra, Galicia)