A 26-year-old mother in
Both kindergarteners, the girls -- Mayuri, 6, and Yurie, 3 -- were found unresponsive Thursday afternoon and declared dead at a hospital. The suspect,
The girls are suspected to have suffered heatstroke, they said. The temperature rose as high as 37.6 C Thursday in
Takeuchi allegedly left them in a passenger car at a parking lot in
After drinking until dawn Thursday, she moved the car and found the girls limp on the rear seat. As she did not call for an ambulance until the afternoon, the police are investigating what she did during the intervening time.
==Kyodo
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