A father in the US state of Georgia was arrested after his twin 15-month-old girls died when he left them in a hot car.

According to the jail records, Asa North, 24, of Carrollton, west of Atlanta, was charged with two counts of involuntary manslaughter and two counts of reckless conduct.

police said that, the girls had been found unresponsive in the back seat of a vehicle parked outside a block of flats. Residents had tried to revive the infants with ice packs in a baby pool.

Atlanta television station CBS 46 reported, police officer Chris Dobbs, said that, "The neighbors heard some screaming I guess coming from the father  and saw him running around back with the two children.''

The local media identified the girls as Ariel Roxanne North and Alaynah Maryanne North. Both were taken to hospital where they were pronounced dead. Post-mortems have yet to be carried out.

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