A five-year-old girl is fighting for her life after locking herself inside a family car, police say.
The child is believed to have climbed into the vehicle when it was parked on a driveway of home in Tanilba Bay near Port Stephens in Australia.
The temperature in the area was around 37.5°C.
The girl was airlifted to hospital in a critical condition, New South Wales Police said.
The circumstances surrounding the incident are under investigation by detectives from Port Stephens.
The girl was discovered at around 4.30pm in the searing heat, authorities say.
It is not known how long the girl was in the car.
No-one has been arrested in connection with the incident.
The news comes after a mum was charged with murder following the deaths of her two daughters.
The girls aged one and two, died inside a black station wagon parked across from the family home in Logan, near Brisbane.
Kerri-Ann Conley, 27 , faces two counts of murder.
