A BELGIAN mum may have cooked her two-year-old daughter to death on a barbecue grill, cops fear.

Rescue workers found the little girl's charred remains at their garage in Zemst, a few miles north of Brussels on Sunday evening, after neighbours saw plumes of smoke coming out of their property.

4 Rescue workers found the little girl's charred remains on Sunday evening at their home in Belgium Credit: Central European News

4 The mum was taken to a local hospital after she sustained severe carbon monoxide poisoning Credit: Central European News

The child began screaming shortly before the onset of the fire, local media reports.

The 27-year-old mum - said to be of African origin - told cops at the scene: We both had to burn alive, only this way we will enter heaven together."

She was taken to a local hospital after she sustained severe carbon monoxide poisoning.

But she has not yet been interrogated by cops, because her physical and mental state is in question.

After docs checked her over, she was arrested in the hospital, on suspicion of murder.

An autopsy on the little girl's body has been performed, although the prosecutor's office has not yet made the results public.

4 An autopsy on the young girl has already been performed, but the results are yet to be revealed Credit: Central European News

4 Neighbours said they heard a child screaming moments before the onset of the fire Credit: Central European News

Psychiatrist Hans Hellebuyck said it is "hard to estimate" what exactly goes through peoples' minds in cases like these.

If the mother did say she started the fire so their souls could enter heaven, he claimed it is a sure sign of psychiatric problems.

Mr Hellebuyck said: "If the woman made such remarks and truly meant them, it is possible that she is mentally ill.

"I am not saying it is like that, but it is something which has to be taken into account."

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