A four-year-old child climbed onto a tumble dryer while playing hide and seek in Mallorca and suffocated.
A four-year-old boy walked into a clothes dryer while playing hide and seek in Mallorca, closed the door and suffocated. The police announced this on Friday. The accident occurred Thursday at his parents' apartment in the popular tourist resort of Magaluf, in the southwest of the resort island, newspaper Mallorca and magazine Mallorca reported.
An aunt was supposed to take care of the boy while his parents worked. But she fell asleep. Later, she and her grandmother searched in vain for the boy for a long time, until they finally found him in the dryer. But he no longer had a pulse and paramedics could only determine that he was dead. The newspaper wrote that the boy was reprimanded several times for getting into the dryer. The family, who were local, received psychological care.