A young mother-of-two has died after falling into a vat of melted chocolate at a factory near Moscow, according to the Russian press.

Svetlana Roslina worked at the Sergiev-Posad confectionery factory in Fedortsovo, which is around 100km away from Moscow. Reports say she had dropped her mobile phone into a vat of sweet mix and was trying to retrieve it, but fell in and was unable to escape.

The young mother worked at the sweet factory where she died credit: VK

Other accounts say she was pouring flour into the mixer before she fell in, with one person saying “The girl was dragged in when she was trying to empty a sack.”

Ms Roslina, 24, was trapped in the vat before being dragged into the plant’s machinery, where she met her grisly end in the factory’s mixer. A local source at the Russian factory said: “she was minced, only her legs were left.”

A local resident said he saw police cars and a hearse drive into the factory’s ground on the evening of Ms Roslina’s death. She leaves behind her husband Vladimir, and two young children.

Russian police are investigating the circumstances of the young woman’s death.