Young sisters dead after being left in car for hours, mother arrested

A 26-year-old mother in Takamatsu in western Japan was arrested Friday for allegedly leaving her two small daughters in a parked car at night while she went bar-hopping, leading to their deaths due to heatstroke, police said.The daughters -- Mayuri, 6, and Yurie, 3 -- were found unresponsive Thursday afternoon and pronounced dead at a hospital. The suspect, Maria Takeuchi, was drinking until dawn, according to the police.Autopsy found that the girls died of dehydration cause by heatstroke, the police said. The temperature rose as high as 37.6 C Thursday in Takamatsu, Kagawa Prefecture, a re…READ FULL ARTICLE