Woman drowns daughter while Skyping

OSLO, Norway, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- A Norwegian woman whose 20-month-old daughter died after being plunged into a bucket of cold water said a British man on Skype told her to do it.

Yasmin Chaudhry, 26, initially told Oslo police the girl's downing was an accident but later said Briton Ammaz Qureshi directed her to take that action as a form of discipline, the BBC reported Wednesday.

Qureshi, 33, was interviewed in London several months after the October 2010 incident, prosecutor Kristin Rusdel said.

"He confirmed he witnessed it on Skype but not that he instructed her to do it," Rusdel said.

Skype users can have phone conversations and 'videochat' over the Internet.

Qureshi told police putting the child underwater was something they came up with together.

Chaundry is charged with unintentional murder and is being held in custody pending a trial.

Rusdel said Norwegian authorities would like to try the two of them together but that will dependent on whether Qureshi can be extradited from Britain