In a second incident in Russia in a week, a Russian child, aged three, was killed after being hung with a washing machine.

The parents of the child woke up in the morning from their sleep to find that their liver had disappeared from his bed, and after searching his body inside the washing machine.

The incident took place in the town of Gobkinski in Ukraine's Okrug-Yamalo-Nenets district, the Daily Mail reported.

The older brother awakened his little brother from his sleep in the morning to play together, helping him to hide inside the washing machine, and the door closed on him, leading to his death "suffocation" according to initial police investigations.

This is the second such incident in Russia in 10 days. Last week, a nine-year-old boy died in the Kamchatka district after being stuck inside the washing machine when he was home alone after returning from school.