Last month, at a nursery school in Nakama City, Fukuoka Prefecture, a 5-year-old child left behind in a shuttle bus died of heat stroke, and police stopped the bus in the same parking lot as at that time and verified it under the scorching sun. The temperature inside the car has risen to more than 50 degrees Celsius, according to an interview with investigators.
On the 29th of last month, at "Futaba Nursery School" in Nakama City, Fukuoka Prefecture, Fuyuo Kurakake (5), who attends this nursery school, was left behind on a shuttle bus when he went to the park and died of heat stroke. I am investigating on suspicion of.
Police stopped the same bus in the parking lot of the nursery school on the 5th of this month and measured the temperature inside the car under the same conditions under the scorching sun to verify the situation at that time.
According to police, Fuyu was left behind with the door closed inside the bus that arrived at the parking lot of the nursery school around 8:30 am on the 29th of last month, and about four and a half hours later, around 1:00 pm It is believed to have died.
According to investigators, the temperature inside the bus reached 40 degrees Celsius around 11:00 am and then rose to more than 50 degrees Celsius, according to a verification on the 5th of this month.
On the day of the incident, the maximum temperature in Kitakyushu City, which is adjacent to Nakama City, was 33.1 degrees Celsius, and on the 5th of this month when verification was conducted, it was 35.3 degrees Celsius.
Police will continue to conduct verifications on days near weather conditions to further investigate the situation in which children died from heat stroke.