A three-year-old boy has died after being left on a nursery school bus in sweltering heat.
Tragic João Alisson spent between nine and 10 hours onboard as temperatures hit 31.6°C (88°F).
It was only when the driver Luciana Feliciano Araújo went to take the kids home on Monday afternoon (18 Dec) that she realised the tot was missing.
She checked the vehicle and found the little boy passed out under a seat.
Araújo immediately called the police.
But officers who arrived on the scene could only pronounce the youngster dead.
Araújo, 52, was arrested on suspicion of manslaughter.
She has been released on bail pending the investigation.
But cops have banned her from driving.
The average maximum temperature in São Paulo, Brazil, that day reached 31.6°C (88°F).
Humidity levels did not drop below 30 per cent.
João’s dad Alan Placido Coimbra Pereira told local media that the tragedy had left him “completely destabilised.”
He said on Tuesday (19 Dec): “I still don’t understand why God took my boy.”
At the time of the last update, the boy’s body was still with the pathologist.
A similar tragedy took place in São Paulo on 14 November, when two-year-old Apollo Gabriel Rodrigues died after being left on another nursery school bus.
Maximum temperatures averaged an unbearable 37.3°C (99°F) that day, with humidity levels around 21 per cent.
