A four-year-old Russian girl left alone in an unlocked car while her father went for a drink died after the vehicle was stolen, Russian news agencies reported today.
Police on the Kamchatka Peninsula, on Russia's Pacific coast, found the child's body 500 metres from the abandoned vehicle.
A murder investigation has been launched, RIA news agency quoted prosecutors as saying.
The child's father told police he left her in the back seat of the car, with the keys in the ignition, while he stopped off around midnight to drink beer, the agency reported.
The girl's mother was at work.
