The youngsters’s Pillowfort weighted blanket is proven in unicorn pink. The merchandise and its variations is being recalled at Target shops after two women died from asphyxiation after changing into trapped below one.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commssion

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U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commssion

The youngsters’s Pillowfort weighted blanket is proven in unicorn pink. The merchandise and its variations is being recalled at Target shops after two women died from asphyxiation after changing into trapped below one.

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commssion

More than 200,000 weighted blankets are being recalled by the Target division chain after stories of two younger women suffocating beneath one, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Thursday.

Two women, ages 4 and 6, reportedly died from asphyxiation after unzipping and crawling inside the kids’s Pillowfort weighted blankets at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina in April, the company stated.

Altogether, Target, the place the blankets have been solely bought, has acquired 4 stories of kids being trapped in them. The recall impacts about 204,000 of the blankets.

“CPSC and Target are urging consumers to stop using the recalled weighted blankets immediately and contact Target for a refund,” the federal company stated in an announcement.

The blankets weigh 6 kilos and are available eight shade and sample picks, together with unicorn white, house navy, pink, blue, grey, buffalo plaid purple, blue constellation, and unicorn pink. They have been being bought for $40 between December 2018 to September 2022.

To enquire concerning the refund course of, click here for extra data. Target can be contacting affected shoppers immediately, the CPSC stated.