A 2-year-old child has died after being found unresponsive inside a car in Scranton, Kansas, on Sunday afternoon, police said.

Officers from Osage County Sheriff's Office were called to an address, which hasn't been made public, in northern Osage County at 3.40 p.m. local time.

The child was rushed to Topeka's Stormont Vail Health where it was pronounced dead, according to Sheriff Chris Wells.

According to 13 WIBW, the sheriff said there were indications the death may have been related to heat. Police have opened an investigation.

The Osage County Sheriff's Office has been contacted for comment.

The National Weather Service reported temperatures in Topeka, situated about 23 miles to the north of Scranton, peaked at 92F on Sunday with an average of 80.5F throughout the day.

The temperature at 4 p.m., shortly after the police were called, was 90F with a heat index of 101.

Neither the name nor gender of the deceased child have been released.

Speaking to the Topeka Capital-Journal, Sheriff Wells said the child appeared to have "got into the car," rather than being abandoned there, though details are unclear.

An autopsy will take place to determine the exact cause of death.

Scranton, a former coal town named after Scranton, Pennsylvania, had a population of 653 according to the 2020 census.

The town had an average household income of $58,214, with 12.5 percent of its residents holding a bachelor's degree or higher.

According to its Clerk's Office, the community consists "primarily of single family housing, several rental properties, two mobile home parks and an income based apartment complex for the aging and disabled".

In July, an 11-year-old baby boy died in his mother's hot car while she completed a hospice shift in Florida.

Tallahassee Police said the child was left in the vehicle "inadvertently" and found "unresponsive" by his mother when she finished her day's work.

Speaking to WCTV, Paige Stewart, from Safe Kids Big Bend, warned: "Being in a vehicle for any certain amount of time will take anyone's temperature up by any number of degrees and for children, their bodies heat up by 3 to 5 times faster than adults."

Nonprofit KidsandCars reports 12 children have died across the U.S. so far this year in car heat-related incidents.

On June 26, a 3-year-old boy from Columbus, Georgia, died of asphyxiation after being left in a hot car for three hours, according to the Muscogee County coroner.

In the same month a 5-year-old died after being left in a car in Houston, Texas, with the incident being investigated by Harris County Sheriff's Office.

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