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Three-year-old found dead in car during France heatwave

Published June 25,2026
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A three-year-old has been found dead in a car in the Paris region, a police source said Thursday, the third such fatality of a child during the extreme weather this week.

Parents found the boy in "the car outside their home", the source said, while civil defence confirmed his death in the town of Saint-Gratien in the Paris suburbs.