Hotel carbon monoxide leak kills child, sickens others

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NILES, Mich. (AP/WOOD) — Authorities say a carbon monoxide leak at a southwestern Michigan hotel has killed a 13-year-old and sickened about a dozen other people, including other children and several police officers.

WNDU-TV and WSBT-TV report that officials at Lakeland Hospital in Niles confirmed the child’s death. The Nile Police Department identified him as 13-year-old Bryan Watts.

Quality Inn & Suites employees called 911 at around 10 a.m. Saturday after seeing six unresponsive children on the pool deck. They ranged in age from 12 to 14, police said. Emergency responders started CPR on all the children and then rushed them to local hospitals.

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