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Sheriff: Kansas toddler dies after making way into hot car

This file photo used a wireless monitor to record the temperature outside and inside of a closed vehicle at a demonstration in Evansville, Ind.
This file photo used a wireless monitor to record the temperature outside and inside of a closed vehicle at a demonstration in Evansville, Ind. Darrin Phegley The Associated Press
ABILENE, Kan.

Authorities in Kansas’ Dickinson County say an 18-month-old girl died after being found unresponsive in a sweltering car that the sheriff says she climbed into at the family’s rural home.

Sheriff Gareth Hoffman told the Topeka Capital-Journal that Olivia Ann Engstrom died Sunday at the family’s home seven miles northeast of Abilene.

Hoffman said the toddler had last been seen a few hours before her body was found, and that the girl had been playing outside with her siblings when she somehow got into a parked car. The sheriff said it’s unclear how she managed to do that.

Hoffman said no foul play was suspected.

This story was originally published August 1, 2016 at 6:48 PM with the headline "Sheriff: Kansas toddler dies after making way into hot car."

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