The two 21-year-old hunters found lifeless in a gabion in Saint-Fromond, Wednesday January 22, were poisoned by the gas emanating from the heat engine that they used to evacuate water from their hunting hut.
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The two 21-year-old hunters found lifeless in a gabion in Saint-Fromond (Manche), Wednesday January 22, died of carbon monoxide poisoning, informs the Coutances public prosecutor's office, Saturday January 25.
-“Extremely high levels of this gas have been observed in the blood of the deceased. Levels at least 10 times higher than the lethal dose“, told the press the public prosecutor of Coutances, Gauthier Poupeau.
A heat engine motor pump was found in the hunting hut near the bodies. “The poisoning is linked to the use by the two young men of a thermal engine lift to evacuate water from the gabion. The hut being a closed environment, the gas emanating from the heat engine was not able to escape. They therefore breathed it without realizing it because it is a painless gas“, detailed the prosecutor this Saturday.
The two young men were from La Meauffe and Hommet-d'Arthenay, north of Saint-Lô. On the day of their death, they had gone hunting in a gabion located in the Saint-Fromond marsh. Not seeing them return, their relatives raised the alarm around 9 p.m. It was firefighters who found them and pronounced them dead in the evening. A heat engine pump was found in the gabion near the bodies.
An investigation was opened by the Coutances public prosecutor's office.
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