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A girl died Sunday in Queens after being left inside a locked car and on fire, sources said.
The three-year-old was released in the rear seat of the soaring Audi A6 Sedan near Baisley Boulevard and 155th Street just before 9 pm. and rushed to the hospital in Jamaica, where she later died, the sources said.
The 39-year-old's father was driving the car and fled in flames, sources said.
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The father was arrested and hospitalized.
The authorities had received a call about a car stopped in the middle of the boulevard. Upon arrival, they noticed that the windows were closed and saw a gas bottle in the street and another at the back, sources said.
The rear doors of the cars were chained, sources said.
The heat from inside had melted the door handle, allowing the fire department to extract the girl, the source said.
It was at this point that the 39-year-old driver, who appeared to be on fire, sprinted and jumped into Baisley Park Pond, where he was later apprehended.
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"He was on a stretcher, he is burned," said 50-year-old witness Lisa Silvera. "He looked white, so burned, with a mask on his face."
The driver, whose sources mention the girl's father, was burned at the second and third degrees and will be taken to Cornell Hospital, sources said.
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The incident, which is still under investigation, appears to have been linked to a custody dispute.
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