Virginia: baby and dog die after being left for hours in car, police say

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A 11-month-old baby and a dog died after being left in a car for over six hours in Virginia, authorities announced on Wednesday.

Police responded to a call at a hospital in Newport News at about 4pm on Tuesday after a man in his 80s entered the emergency room and said he had a deceased child" in the back of his car, the York-Poquoson sheriff's office said in a press briefing.