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Report: Carbon monoxide fumes kill French tourists in Italy

Published: 25 Dec 2018 - 06:26 pm | Last Updated: 05 Nov 2021 - 10:20 pm

AP

ROME - An Italian news agency is reporting that two French tourists have died of carbon monoxide poisoning in northwest Italy.

The ANSA news agency said the 57-year-old tourists were found dead on Tuesday in a two-room house in Monterosso Grana, a small mountain town near Cuneo, in the Piedmont region that borders France.

It quoted rescue crew as saying one of the two wood-burning stoves in the house was lit when they arrived and carbon monoxide saturated the rooms.

The identities of the tourists weren't immediately released.