An 11-year-old Bulgarian girl
died from carbon-monoxide fumes released by a fire in her room
at Conversano near Bari Friday. The fire reportedly broke out
from a TV set. The girl, who was rushed to hospital by her
farm-worker father, lived in a home inside Conversano's
Marchione Castle. The girl, both of whose parents were
Bulgarian, was born in Castellana Grotte near Bari, and would
have turned 12 on January 6. According to an initial
reconstruction of events, she fell asleep leaving the TV on and
it overheated and set fire to the furniture housing it. She was
pronounced dead on arrival in hospital.
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