Girl, 5, with no shoes carried baby sibling for over a km in -35 temperatures

A woman has been arrested in the US state of Alaska after a five-year-old girl was found to have carried her younger sibling almost one kilometre to a neighbour's house shoeless in minus 35 degrees.

Alaska state troopers were called to the village of Venetie after the girl and 18-month-old arrived at the neighbour's home dressed only in socks and light clothing.