Boy, 8, was hiding in his mum’s van when found

AN eight-year-old boy rushed to hospital in a critical condition had hid himself in the back of his mother’s van in Melbourne and spent several hours inside the vehicle before he was found.

The youngster was found “unresponsive” by his mother about 2.45pm on Monday as the temperature soared to more than 30C.

“The boy’s mother dropped her children at primary school in the morning however, didn’t realise one of the kids had climbed into the rear of the car and hid him- self,” Victoria Police spokeswoman Leonie Johnson said yesterday. “She has driven to work and parked her car without knowing he was in there.”

After she made the shocking discovery, emergency services rushed to Maddox Rd at suburban Newport and took the child to the Royal Children’s Hospital where he remains in a serious condition.

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