VIDEO: Four year old girl has lucky escape when washing machine exploded in front of her face

Darshak Purohit said his four-year-old daughter was standing in the kitchen when the machine blew up “like a bomb”.

The huge explosion blasted the metal drum straight out of the Hoover washing machine – and Darshak said his family are very lucky that not more damage was done.

The 35-year-old marketing manager said: “Just seconds before my daughter was standing next to the machine.

“If it had happened a few seconds earlier she could have been badly hurt.”