Coroner calls for urgent review of 1.6 million Hoover and Candy tumble dryers after fire kills father and daughter, 9
A Hoover Dynamic Next 10kg tumble dryer like the model at the centre of the Heckmondwike fire, which experts warn burns almost completely, destroying evidence of the fault that caused it.Sohaib Ahmed, found unresponsive behind his front door in Heckmondwike after the blaze, whose daughter Manahal's older sister survived only after extensive hospital treatment.
Sohaib Ahmed, 38, was found unresponsive behind his front door in Heckmondwike, West Yorkshire, and his daughter Manahal died in hospital. Coroner Martin Fleming said safety regulators had received a 'significant number' of fire reports involving the same model. He asked owner Haier to consider pulling it from sale. Haier insists tests found 'no systemic safety issue'.
The model blamed, the DX C10DCER-80, sat in the family's kitchen when the fire started.
Experts warned such dryers 'burn almost completely', destroying evidence of the fault.
Manahal's older sister survived, but only after 'extensive hospital treatment'.
