Washing machine spins Malaysian toddler to death

KUALA LUMPUR, July 26 (Reuters) A Malaysian boy who caught a horrific glimpse of his baby brother being spun around in the family's washing machine yanked him out and tried to revive him but his efforts were fruitless and the toddler died.

''Without hesitation, I pulled out my brother and sat him on my lap on the nearby staircase,'' the Star newspaper quoted Abdillah Al-Hadi, 7, as saying. ''I shook him and called out his name.'' But his 16-month old brother, Nasrul Hafiz, did not respond, and was declared dead on arrival at a nearby hospital.

The toddler had climbed a staircase beside the washing machine in the family's home in the northern state of Terengganu. He reached out to open the lid of the appliance to pull something out, and fell inside, the newspaper said.

The machine was on the spin cycle at the time.

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