What a family from Bosnia and Herzegovina, living in Vienna’s Davidhof neighborhood, is currently having to overcome is unimaginable. After several days of lion’s fight by doctors, the public was shocked by the news that a two-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl died in the hospital as a result of carbon monoxide poisoning after the fire.
Their older sister (14) was injured in a desperate and brave attempt to extinguish the fiery element herself and save her younger brother and sister.
The sadness is palpable around Davidhof
The team of the Austrian newspaper Krone Zeitung this morning she visited the Viennese neighborhood where the tragedy happened. The residents of this municipal building are united in mourning with their neighbors from Bosnia and Herzegovina.
“It’s simply horrible. I wouldn’t wish something like this on anyone in the world. We’re all still in shock at Davidhof,” quietly commented Rudi, one of BH’s neighbors. families. The entrances to the building are closed, and hardly any of the shocked residents have the strength to talk about the details of the horror.
One of the most difficult interventions by the Viennese firefighters
Let us remind you that the terrible fire broke out on Monday, May 18, around 16:45. The professional fire department of Vienna received a call about a fire in an apartment in Davidhof in Otakring.
Firefighters used heavy equipment to enter the completely smoky apartment and found the unconscious bodies of a boy and a girl in one of the rooms. Although emergency resuscitation was started immediately on the spot, and the children were then hospitalized, their small bodies could not withstand the severe internal injuries and they died yesterday in the hospital.
The cause of the fire – the battery of a newer generation vacuum cleaner
According to the official information it transmits Crownsthe investigation determined that she caused the fire defective vacuum cleaner battery newer generations.
At the time of the fire, the parents were not in the apartment, and the 14-year-old daughter was temporarily looking after her younger brothers and sister. She suffered minor injuries and choked on smoke trying to fight the flames.
The Austrian police specifically emphasized that there is no criminally relevant behavior of the parentsand that no investigation is conducted against them, because it was an accident and a technical failure of a household appliance that no one could have foreseen.
(TYPE/Source: N1/Photo: Davidhof)
