Boy, 3, ‘loses arm in tumble dryer accident’

A three-year-old boy is in a serious but stable condition after his arm was said to have been ripped off when he put it into a tumble dryer and turned the machine on. The boy, who has not been named, was staying in a caravan with his family at Eastchurch Holiday Centre on the Isle of Sheppey in Kent when the incident happened on Monday.

Other people at the site said they had been told that his arm had been severed at the shoulder and it was reportedly packed in ice and taken 50 miles to King’s College Hospital so that it could be reattached. The ambulance service said only that “a young child suffered a serious arm injury”.