A horrified mum has said how she smelt her baby burning when the tot clutched a live electric cable after dunking it in a glass of water.
The mother, who has not been named, had left her one-year-old daughter drinking milk while she did housework at their home in the city of Santiago Marino, in the coastal Venezuelan state of Aragua.
Eliannys Victoria Hernandez Bello was later declared dead from electrocution on April 18.
Her mother said she had heard a short cry and then noticed the burning smell and ran to Elianny's bedroom, according to local media.
The child had started playing with the cable and plunged it into a glass of water before being electrocuted instantly.
Forensic investigators said Elianny's mother described "a strong burning smell".
And when she rushed to her daughter's room, she found the baby with her hands closed around a cable that was plugged into an electrical socket.
Investigators say she knocked her daughter's hands away and rushed her to hospital where medics declared her dead.
Police said they recovered a charred and blackened section of cable from the family home.
The results of an autopsy have not been made public.
Earlier in the month, another two-year-old girl died after being electrocuted in her home, after being left alone unsupervised overnight.
The child had been left alone in her home in Orán, Argentina, for several hours without being under adult supervision.
It is thought that the incident occurred around 3pm but emergency services were only notified of the child’s death the following day when the victim’s mother returned and found the child’s body.
Sources said: "She had been absent from the house during the day on Friday, around 11, and returned this Saturday, at which time she discovered the lifeless body of the little girl."
The Serious Attacks against Persons Unit has since been at the helm of the investigation. The unit has carried out tests in order to establish the conditions in which the accident occurred.
Police initially issued a press release to the media reporting that a girl had accidentally died after falling from a tree and hitting her head. However, the death certificate was rectified: "Violent death by electrocution."
