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Worshippers overcome by fumes

Saturday 26 December 1998 00:02 GMT
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Worshippers overcome by fumes

CARBON MONOXIDE fumes from a faulty heating system made 250 people sick who were attending Christmas Mass in a church in Saverdun, in the Ariege region of south-west France. A crisis centre was set up to treat the worshippers with oxygen.

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