Pa. boy, 2, dies after being left in hot minivan

PENNDEL, Pa.—A toddler left in a hot minivan outside his suburban Philadelphia day care center has died of hyperthermia.

Bucks County authorities say 2-year-old Daniel Slutsky was in a locked vehicle with the windows up for six hours Wednesday, when temperatures were in the 80s.

Coroner Joseph Campbell says Daniel had been driven to the center in Penndel (PEN'-dul) by a neighbor who operates it. Campbell says Rimma Shvartsman forgot about Daniel and returned in the late afternoon to find him unresponsive.

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