Three elderly people died in Spain after using a generator during Monday’s blackout (28), according to emergency services. The suspicion is that carbon monoxide poisoning has occurred;
Police from the northwestern region of Galicia said agents discovered the bodies of three people in a building in the town of Taboadela.
According to the authorities, a generator was being used to feed an oxygen device that one of the victims needed to use.
A “high concentration of carbon monoxide” was detected in the building where the bodies were found, police said.
It is still unclear what caused Monday’s blackout, which impacted millions of people in Spain and Portugal.
This content was originally published in blackout in Spain: three seniors die after using a generator, says police on the CNN Brazil website.
Source: CNN Brasil
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