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Japan, a 6-year-old and 3-year-old young sister was trapped in a car for over 15 hours and died from heatstroke.
Police investigation revealed that the mother left her two children in the car and drank overnight.
Correspondent Yoo Seong-jae from Tokyo delivered this information.
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On the afternoon of the 3rd, a road near a parking lot in Takamatsu City, Kagawa Prefecture, Japan.
Police investigations are in full swing around white cars.
In the car, two sisters, ages 6 and 3, were hiding together, and mineral water and slices of bread were found.
The autopsy confirmed that the two children died of heat stroke.
[Neighboring residents: A firefighter came and was giving a heart massage, and a woman was standing nearby.] At first, the
sister's mother, 26-year-old Takeuchi, said, "I went to the bathroom for about 2 hours because I was not feeling well."
Then, after being arrested, he confessed, "I left my daughters in the car and drank around three bars all night."
On the day of the incident, the temperature in the morning in Takamatsu City had already exceeded 33 degrees and reached 36 degrees at noon.
The sisters were left in a hot car for more than 15 hours from 9 p.m. the previous night until 12:40 p.m. on the 3rd when Takeuchi returned by car.
Earlier in July, a woman in her twenties locked her three-year-old daughter in a room and left her home for eight days in Tokyo, killing her child from dehydration and starvation.
The need for social protection for children who are neglected in blind spots is also being raised amid criticisms against parents who want to meet their parents.
(Video coverage: Moon Hyun-jin, video editing: Oh No-young, CG: Lee Jun-ho)