TEXAS, UNITED STATES.- the winter storm that whips the cities of the southern United States already leaves several dead, some of them lost their lives due to the cold, as in the case of the Honduran child Cristian Pineda of just 11 years old and, others have died trying to counteract the low temperatures.
This was the case of a compatriot identified solely as Kevin, Who along with his landlord decided that perhaps lighting an electric generator could bring heat to their homes, as the storm also keeps several areas of Texas without electricity. However, his experiment eventually claimed his life.
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“It went really fast and all of us who were inside the house were knocked unconscious,” he recounted Katherine Padilla, Wife of Kevin.
“It’s been about an hour since they turned it on, it started to put us to sleep and we go to bed. But then my child started crying a lot and convulsing,” he narrated with tears in his eyes as he remembered the difficult times when he thought his whole family would lose his life.
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The young woman – who is pregnant – and her four-year-old son were taken to the nearest hospital, where after two days they were discharged, but they took the sad news that the leader of the household had died almost immediately after inhaling the toxic gases.