Italy toddler dies after being left in car for hours

An Italian toddler has died after being left in a hot car for five hours by her father who had forgotten to drop her off at day care.

Doctors in the city of Ancona declared the 22-month-old Elena dead - three days after the incident.

Father Lucio Petrizzi, a professor of veterinary medicine, said that he had inexplicably thought he had left her at a nursery on the way to work.

Prosecutors are due to decide whether to charge him with manslaughter.