Kyodo via Yahoo: 2 die as 7 women collapse at meditation hall in Nara
Two women died Saturday after being found collapsed on the floor at a meditation hall in the town of Tawaramoto, Nara Prefecture, with four other women and a female Buddhist priest, police said. Shigeko Okawa, 80, and Sumie Fujii, 78, were among six women aged between 75 and 87 who were visiting the 88-year-old priest at the hall and who were found by a relative of one of the women who lived nearby. All seven women were taken to a hospital, but two of them later died, the police said, adding they suspect the seven were poisoned by carbon monoxide fumes. When firefighters arrived at the scene, the seven women were no longer conscious in the hall where a charcoal brazier was burning and another heater was turned on.
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