Monoxide

A 16-year-old boy has died from suspected gas poisoning in his home in Magiko, Xanthi, in northern Greece, while his sisters, aged 15 and 18, remain in critical condition. The incident occurred after the family was reportedly exposed to a gas leak, possibly from a newly installed propane system or carbon monoxide.

Authorities are investigating whether a potential construction flaw in the heating system led to a mass carbon monoxide poisoning at a hotel in Florina, northern Greece, according to reports on Tuesday.

The owner of a hotel in Florina, northern Greece, was being questioned by a prosecutor on Monday after 14 guests at his facility were hospitalized with carbon monoxide poisoning from a faulty heating system.

A hotel in Florina, northern Greece, where 14 guests had to be hospitalized for carbon monoxide poisoning on Sunday had been cited for licensing violations less than 10 days earlier, the Tourism Ministry confirmed on Monday.

Fourteen people exhibited symptoms of carbon monoxide poisoning on Sunday morning at a hotel in the village of Limnochori, Florina, in northern Greece.

According to local reports, all 14 individuals, some of whom were unconscious, were transported to hospital with respiratory issues, likely due to a carbon monoxide leak from the hotel's heating system.

Four people were found dead in a room adjoining a livestock farming unit in the town of Kalyvia, east Attica, on Friday afternoon, news website Skai.gr reported.

A foreign national died on the island of Rhodes on Tuesday, with initial indications pointing to carbon monoxide poisoning, state-run news agency reported.

The man was living with two other foreigners in an old house in the district of Aghii Anargyri in the city of Rhodes with no electricity and had to use makeshift stoves to stay warm.

A 24-year-old man from Cameroon was found dead inside the Moria migrant camp on the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos early Tuesday morning, according to state-run news agency ANA-MPA.

The migrant was reportedly found by his friends at 2 a.m. His body was transferred to the hospital in Mytilene where doctors confirmed his death.

Two workers have died and four others have been taken to hospital due to carbon monoxide poisoning in a mine in the Black Sea province of Gümüşhane, state-run Anadolu Agency reported early on July 16.  

Gümüşhane Governor Okay Memiş told reporters that the four workers were provided with outpatient treatment at a state hospital in the district of Kelkit. 

Emergency services rushed to the scene of a huge basement fire in New York after a potentially deadly gas leak that has left three dozen injured.
Police swooped on the 12-storey apartment block in West Broadway and Murray Street following suggestions a ‘suspicious package’ had been discovered – just three blocks away from Ground Zero.