A four-year-old boy died in Jerusalem on Thursday afternoon after being left in a car and suffering a heat stroke.
The boy was brought to an urgent care clinic in the capital’s Armon Hanatziv neighborhood and rushed from there to the city’s Shaare Zedek Medical Center while being resuscitated.
Doctors eventually declared him dead.
Police were dispatched to the scene to investigate.
A spokeswoman for Terem Emergency Medical Centers said the boy was apparently playing with other children near his home when he became locked in the sweltering car and remained there for some time.
She said the boy was from East Jerusalem, where families are celebrating the Eid al-Adha Muslim holiday.
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