On the morning of the 1st, a man in his 80s and his wife were found lying down in a storeroom in a house in Rumoi City, Hokkaido, after which a man was confirmed dead.
A household snowplow is in the storeroom with the engine running, and police are investigating the situation, suspecting that the two may have been carbon monoxide poisoning.
According to police and fire departments, Kimura's wife told me that around 10 am on the 1st, Mr. Matsuo Kimura (87), who lives in this house, had collapsed in a storeroom on the premises of a house in Okimi-cho, Rumoi City. There was a report to the fire department.
When the fire department rushed in, two wives who reported to Mr. Kimura were found lying unconscious in the storeroom and were taken to the hospital.
After that, my wife's consciousness recovered and she was able to talk, but Mr. Kimura was confirmed dead.
According to police, the storeroom was a one-story building with a size of about 6 tatami mats, and a household snowplow was placed with the engine running near the place where the two were lying down. That is.
Police are investigating the situation in detail, suspecting that two people may have been poisoned by carbon monoxide due to the accumulation of exhaust gas in the storeroom.
In Rumoi City, it snowed intermittently from the end of the year, and the citizens were busy removing snow around their houses.