Dubai woman and her dog killed as tenant turns on electricity generator releasing the ‘silent killer’
A Dubai woman and her dog killed in a shared villa accommodation after inhalation of carbon monoxide gas.
A Dubai Police official said the main tenant of the villa, located in Al Barsha, had switched on an electricity generator after the power was cut due to violating municipality rules covering subletting of the villa to others.
The gas suffocated the woman and her dog while another subtenant survived.
‘Silent killer’ in Al Barsha
Colonel Maki Salman, director of the Crime Scene Department at Dubai Police, said his team responded to an emergency call about the death of the woman and her dog inside the villa. Speaking to WTX Dubai news.
Col Salman said the gas is known as the ‘silent killer’ as it has no colour or smell. “If a human inhales the gas for a long time in a closed area, then the gas reaches the blood and kills the human.”
He added that the specific danger posed by carbon monoxide is that red blood cells will absorb carbon monoxide and turn away oxygen.
Oxygen starvation
“As a result, oxygen starvation inside the human body occurs, which will ultimately cause death,” he said.
“They were living in a small part of a villa rented by a tenant to other families. We suspected it was food poisoning as [another] woman [who survived the incident] confirmed they had dinner in a restaurant in Sharjah and fed the dog from the same food,” said Col Salman.
The investigation showed the Dubai woman and her dog killed by carbon monoxide poisoning.
“We noticed a covered electricity generator in the villa. The tenant used it after a power cut in the villa’s services as he had violated the rules of renting the villa to others.”
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