A mother in western
The 26-year-old mother has admitted to drinking until the morning at three bars in the city's nightlife district, after leaving the girls, according to local police.
After departing the third bar, she went to the house of a male friend and eventually returned to her car in the afternoon, the police said.
Autopsies found that the girls died of dehydration caused by heatstroke, the police said. The temperature rose to 37.6 C in
The mother initially explained that she had left the car for about two hours to go to a restroom due to an illness, but footage from surveillance cameras and witness accounts showed that she had left the children the previous day, according to the police.
==Kyodo
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