TEXAS, UNITED STATES. – The winter Storm plaguing the cities of the southern United States has already left several deaths, some of them perished from the cold, as in the case of the Honduran child Cristian Pineda barely 11 years old and others have died trying to fight the cold temperatures.
Such was the case of a fellow countryman identified only as Kevin, who along with his landlord decided that perhaps by turning on an electric generator, they could bring heat to their homes, as the storm also left several parts of Texas without electricity. However, his experiment cost his life.
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Fear
“It happened very quickly and we were all unconscious,” he said. Katherine Padilla, Kevin’s wife.
“It took about an hour since they turned it on, it started to make us sleepy and we went to bed. But then my child started crying and convulsing a lot,” she said with tears in her eyes thinking back to the difficult moments. in which she thought he would lose his life with her whole family.
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The young woman – who is pregnant – and her four-year-old son were taken to the nearest hospital, where they were released after two days, but they received the sad news that the home’s leader had passed away almost immediately. after inhaling the poisonous gases.