Toddler sisters found dead in washing machine wasn't homicide - police
Two young girls, aged 2 and 4, died after crawling into washing machine
Two toddler sisters died after crawling into a washing machine at their home and accidentally turning it on.
Police have ruled out the possibility of homicide after the pair, aged 2 and 3 (earlier media reports said she was 4), were found dead hours after a spin cycle had been activated at their home in a suburban town in Jiangxi province on Saturday, Xinhua reported on Tuesday.
The sisters had found their way into the washing machine installed on the balcony of their flat while their parents were both indoors, their mother cooking in the kitchen and their father watching TV in the bedroom, according to media reports.
The parents recalled hearing a loud noise, but said they didn’t suspect anything. Instead they thought the sisters had left the house after they found them missing.
When the mother returned home after a fruitless search outdoors, the father found the washing machine had its lights blinking. The couple was devastated after finding their daughters dead inside the machine.
"The father found the girls curled up in the closed washing machine with a lot of blood when he saw the light on the washing machine was flickering," the children's grandfather was quoted by a Jiangxi-based online news portal as saying, according to the Global Times.