German fire brigade frees girl from washing machine

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2025-11-28

Frankfurt (dpa) - Firefighters near the western German city of Darmstadt had to cut apart a washing machine to free an 8-year-old girl who got trapped inside, an official said on Friday. "While playing hide and seek, she was looking for a particularly good hiding place," municipal fire inspector Benedikt Fröhlich told dpa. The girl climbed into the washing machine's drum feet first, pulled her legs and bottom in after her and got stuck, prompting......

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