Corrèze: Baby hospitalized after being left in a car parked in the sun

A baby just over a year old was hospitalized this Friday in a serious condition after being left in a car parked in the sun in Ussel (Corrèze), firefighters and prosecutors learned, amid a heatwave in France. Around 1 p.m., emergency services responded to the vehicle, which was parked in the parking lot of a commercial area in the southeast of the small town of about 9,000 inhabitants.

The victim, suffering from dehydration, was airlifted as an "absolute emergency" to the Limoges University Hospital (Haute-Vienne), the firefighters told an AFP correspondent, confirming information from the daily newspaper La Montagne .

According to Ici Limousin radio, the child had been in the vehicle since 8 a.m. The Tulle prosecutor's office told AFP that it had opened an investigation entrusted to the Ussel police station , without providing further details at this stage on the victim's state of health.

Corrèze was placed on yellow heatwave alert on Friday as a heatwave, the first of 2025, spread across a large part of the country with temperatures in some places exceeding 35°C.