Three-year-old dies of asphyxiation after elder sibling locks him inside washing machine
The incident took place in the small Russian town of Gubkinsky and the cause of the child's death has been ruled as asphyxiation
A three-year-old boy suffocated and died after his elder sibling "shut him inside" a washing machine while his parents were sleeping. The couple got up in the middle of the night to find that the child was not next to them before finding his breathless body in the machine.
The incident is said to have taken place in Gubkinsky, a Russian town with a population of just 23,000-odd people that is located on the left bank of the Pyakapur River, south of Salekhard, on December 13. The Investigative Committee of Russia's Investigative Directorate for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug reported that an ambulance was called to the residence and that a pre-investigation probe has been launched by the authorities.