A 4-year-old Romanian boy died of heat shock in Italy after he was found unconscious in a car exposed to the sun.

A 4-year-old boy, the son of a Romanian couple on vacation in Italy, died of heat shock. The incident took place in Sardinia, where, after the parents had rested, the boy left home and was found unconscious in their car parked in the hot sun. He was initially admitted to the Santissima Annunziata hospital in Sassari, but later died at the Gemelli hospital in Rome.