Girl dies in tumble drier

INQUIRIES were continuing yesterday into the death of a three-year-old English girl in a tumble drier.

The girl, named in local newspaper reports as Georgina Bywater, reportedly clambered into the appliance overnight at her family’s home in Brierley Hill, West Midlands, on Friday.

Police and ambulance crews were called to the property shortly before 8am on Friday. She was taken to Russells Hall Hospital in nearby Dudley but was pronounced dead.