Larnaca, June 02: A five-year-old Cyprus boy was found dead in the family car, forgotten there for nearly eight hours by his doctor father while he carried out emergency surgery, police said on Wednesday.
Police said they found the boy dead at 5:00 pm (1400 GMT) on Tuesday afternoon in the car parked outside a private clinic in the southern coastal town of Larnaca.
According to the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) the police found the car locked, the boy was in the back seat and there was an empty water bottle next to him.
The father had planned to take the boy to nursery but on the way he received a call asking him to rush to the clinic hospital to conduct emergency surgery and headed there immediately.
The alarm was only raised when the mother went to pick the boy up from the nursery and was told he never arrived.
It was only then the father realised that he had not taken his son out of the car.
Although media reported that the boy died of sunstroke due to temperatures soaring above 30 degrees Celsius (117 Fahrenheit), a post mortem as to the cause of death will be carried out Wednesday.
——–Agencies