One person died and six were injured, including three children, in what appears to be a carbon monoxide poisoning incident in Indiana, officials said.
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The Scott County Coroner’s Office pronounced Terri Hart, 51, dead, according to the sheriff’s office.
Four others, including a 23-year-old, a 6-year-old, a 4-year-old, and a 3-month-old, were hospitalized. The office did not provide details about their condition.
Two other adults were treated at the scene but weren’t hospitalized, authorities said.
An autopsy and toxicology are pending, but investigators said there is “a possibility of carbon monoxide poisoning,” the sheriff’s office said in the statement.
The office, meanwhile, said it does not believe foul play was involved, and the incident was being treated as “a non-criminal death investigation.”
“Until we know all the facts and we can talk to the people who we need to talk to, to find out just exactly why they were there, why they should not have been there or why they should have been there, we just don’t know,” Goodin said.
