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Gas leak likely cause of 'Escape Room' fire
08 January 2019
INVESTIGATORS IN Poland are blaming a gas leak in a heating system at an ‘Escape Room’ for a fire that killed five teenage girls and injured a man.

The bodies were found Friday after firefighters extinguished a blaze in an adjacent room.
The 15-year-old girls are thought to have been celebrating one of their birthdays at the popular escape room venue in Koszalin, in northern Poland. Participants are locked in a room that is unlocked after they solve a series of puzzles.
Prosecutors said that carbon monoxide inhalation was the likely cause of the deaths.
A 26-year-old man employed at the location was hospitalised with burns.
It is thought that a leak in the bottled gas heating system at the location was a probable cause of the fire. Although firefighters had earlier blamed faulty electric wiring and substandard security procedures.
The owner of the facility has been charged on suspicion of deliberately creating a fire hazard that led to the blaze.
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