The mother of two young boys who were found dead in a car during a heatwave in France forgot about her children while she was unpacking shopping, it has been claimed.
The brothers, aged just four and two, were found unresponsive by their mother, 33, on Monday afternoon in the town of Carpentras, southern France, in a car parked outside their grandmother’s house.
They suffered cardiac arrest as temperatures reached a sweltering 40C, and while services were called to the scene, resuscitation efforts were unsuccessful.
Today, it was claimed by French media that the mother had changed her story about the sequence of events.
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