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False: Five-year-old Sri Lankan girl died after father put her in washing machine False claims that a five-year-old girl in southern Sri Lanka died after she was locked inside a washing machine have circulated in Facebook posts and WhatsApp messages. But the posts used details from a story about a three-year-old boy who died in France in 2011, as well as photos of a four-year-old girl who died in Qatar in 2022. Local police in Sri Lanka told AFP they had not received any reports about a similar case of cruelty against a child. (Source: Agence France-Presse - AFP)