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There are a lot of people going camping these days, and when it gets cold like this, you have to be more careful when heating at night. A couple in their 60s who were camping in Gyeongnam was found dead in a car. It is believed to have been poisoned by carbon monoxide from a heating appliance.
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is around Hapcheonho Lake in Gyeongnam.
Traces of a fire and fishing gear are visible.
Camping by car, traces of car park.
On the morning of the 20th, around 7:30 in the morning, a couple in their 60s was found dead in the car while they were staying here.
Seven people, including the deceased couple, rode here in four vehicles, fished and parked there.
I rode a camper converted from a van.
The cause of death of the deceased couple was carbon monoxide poisoning, and an LP gas heater was used for heating, but it seems to have been incompletely burned.
At the time of discovery, the car windows were all closed and sealed.
[Police official: The window was closed and sealed. According to the statement of the first discoverer, when the car door was opened, there was a significant smell of gas inside the car... .]
Last May, a couple and their 4-year-old son were poisoned by carbon monoxide from a butane gas heater at a campground in Hoengseong, Gangwon-do, and died in December of last year in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi-do. .
Police urged frequent ventilation during winter camping and car parks and to avoid cooking with fire.
(Video coverage: Ahn Myeong-hwan KNN, screen provided: Gyeongnam Police Agency)