BEIJING (Reuters) - Nine young women in Beijing have died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas water heater, local media said on Friday, the country's worst such accident in recent memory.
Police found the girls unconscious on Thursday morning in an apartment in Chaoyang district in the Chinese capital, the Beijing Morning Post said. They were taken to hospital where doctors tried to save them but to no avail.
Another woman survived the accident.
"The preliminary judgement is that the use of an indoor water heater for shower for a relatively long period of time has caused the deaths," the newspaper quoted police as saying.
The 10 women were all migrants from other parts of China working for a local real estate company, it said, adding they just moved into the rented apartment on April 21.
Fri Apr 25, 2008 7:22am IST
in.reuters.com
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- Kamal Kumar Pandey (Adv. Supreme Court of India)
- Lawyer Practising at Supreme Court of India. Court Experience: Criminal, Civil & PIL (related to Property, Tax, Custom & Duties, MVAC, insurance, I.P.R., Copyrights & Trademarks, Partnerships, Labour Disputes, etc.) Socio-Legal: Child Rights, Mid Day Meal Programme, Sarva Shiksha Abhiyaan, Women Rights, Against Female Foeticide, P.R.Is, Bonded Labour, Child labour, Child marriage, Domestic violence, Legal Literacy, HIV/AIDS, etc. Worked for Legal Aid/Advise/Awareness/Training/Empowerment/Interventions/Training & Sensitisation.
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