Boy, 3, dies inside car outside Miami-area school

A 3-year-old boy died Monday inside a car in South Florida outside the school where his parents work, officials said.

The child was pronounced dead at a hospital after authorities responded to the Lubavitch Educational Center shortly before 4 p.m. EDT, the Miami Gardens Police Department said, according to local news station WPLG.

Emergency officials airlifted the child to the medical center, police said. An investigation into how the child died is ongoing.

Neither the child nor his parents were identified in the report. The parents’ roles with the school have also not been released.

“This tragedy hits close to home, and many in our school community have been affected by it,” the school’s dean, Rabbi Benzion Korf, said in a statement.

“No words can capture the heartbreak and sadness we feel.”

Miami Gardens is located about 15 miles north of Miami’s downtown area. Miami Gardens Police didn’t immediately respond to a Daily News request for comment.

The Kids and Car Safety organization says the boy is the first child in Florida to die this year from being inside a hot car, and at least the 11th in the United States.

It’s the 108th such death in Florida since 1992, according to Kids and Car Safety. Only Texas has more such deaths in that time.