A toddler had a lucky escape when a washing machine exploded "like a bomb" in a family home in Harrow.
Darshak Purohit's four-year-old daughter Hinal was in the kitchen with the machine when it blow up in the first 10 minutes of a cycle.
The explosion blast through some of the kitchen worktop and shattered glasses that were stood on the sideboard.
Mr Purohit, his parents, wife and one-year-old daughter were in another room when they heard a "huge bang" on Friday morning.
Mr Purohit rushed into the kitchen and was shocked to see the remnants of the destroyed Hoover washing machine.
The 35-year-old marketing manager said: "When I spoke to Hoover they were not at all helpful and said that they have no answer. The only thing they can do is to sell me a 12-month service plan where either they will repair it or replace it with new one. This is not at all helpful as this kind of fault might take someone's life."
