A child was taken to hospital Thursday evening after a car caught fire in the Tesco supermarket carpark in Tipperary Town.
Gardai, units of the fire brigade and ambulances were called to the scene and the child was rescued and taken to the burns units in Cork.
The car is now being technically examined.
Gardaí in Tipperary are asking anyone who may have been in the area and may have witnessed the incident to contact them.
