New Delhi: Alone at home for a few minutes, three-year-old twins climbed inside a washing machine filled with water and drowned on Saturday afternoon in west Delhi's Rohini.
Police said their mother had set out to wash clothes but figured she had run out of washing powder. She left the two boys - named Nishant and Nakshya - alone playing by the washing machine and stepped out of their apartment to get some detergent.
When she came back six minutes later, she could not find the children. Failing to locate the children after frantically searching in and around the house for about 20 minutes, a neighbor called the police.
"Mr Ravinder immediately took the children to a nearby family hospital where doctors declared them dead. Shocked father could not believe and took them (the children) to Jaipur Golden Hospital where too doctors declared them dead," a senior police official, MN Tiwari told IANS.
The bodies of the boys have been sent for an autopsy.
Police said their mother had set out to wash clothes but figured she had run out of washing powder. She left the two boys - named Nishant and Nakshya - alone playing by the washing machine and stepped out of their apartment to get some detergent.
When she came back six minutes later, she could not find the children. Failing to locate the children after frantically searching in and around the house for about 20 minutes, a neighbor called the police.
"Mr Ravinder immediately took the children to a nearby family hospital where doctors declared them dead. Shocked father could not believe and took them (the children) to Jaipur Golden Hospital where too doctors declared them dead," a senior police official, MN Tiwari told IANS.
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The bodies of the boys have been sent for an autopsy.
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