The nine-month-old boy who
was seriously poisoned by smoke inhalation
after an explosion in the basement of a building in the Madrid town of Alcorcón last Thursday has died this Monday afternoon at the La Paz hospital in Madrid, as confirmed to Efe hospital sources.
His 5-year-old brother died in the accident and his mother was admitted to a hospital for severe poisoning.
The event occurred at 19:15 on Thursday in premises located on the ground floor of some recently built buildings on Calle Oslo in Alcorcón.
The fire in the premises, probably due to sparks from a radio that some workers manipulated, according to the head of the municipality's firefighters, Raúl Esteban, who ruled out that the flames had their origin in an explosion due to gas escape that occurred by accidentally puncturing a pipe, as was first reported.
The fire generated a large amount of dense black smoke that spread rapidly through the houses and the common areas of the outbuildings.
A 30-year-old woman and her two children, aged 5 years and 9 months, who lived above the establishment, on the third floor, suffered severe smoke inhalation poisoning and went into cardiorespiratory arrest.
The toilets of Summa 112 managed to reverse it in the case of the mother and her youngest son, but not in that of the eldest, who died.
The mother was "stable within gravity" in the Major Burns Unit of the Getafe hospital, while her baby had a "reserved prognosis" in the La Paz hospital.
The funeral for the baby will be held tomorrow, Tuesday, in the parish of Our Lady of the Assumption of La Cumbre, in Alcorcón.
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