Otago Daily Times

Child’s death unexplaine­d

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Christchur­ch: Police are treating the death of a toddler found unresponsi­ve in her family’s washing machine in Christchur­ch as unexplaine­d.

They were called to the girl’s home last Friday night.

A minute released by deputy chief coroner Anna Tutton says the girl was at home with her father and siblings when the father realised he had not seen her for about 10 minutes.

He searched for her and found her in the washing machine.

Attempts were made to resuscitat­e the girl but she died in hospital the following day.

A postmortem examinatio­n has been conducted and the coroner has started an inquiry.

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