BEIJING : nine young women in beijing have died of carbon monoxide poisoning from a gas water heater, local media said yesterday, the country's worst such accident in recent memory. police found the girls unconscious on Thursday morning
in an apartment in the chaoyang district. they were taken to hospital where doctors tried to save them but to no avail. Another woman survived the accident. the 10 women were all migrants from other parts of china working for a local real estate company, and had just moved into the rented apartment on april 21. REUTERS