Jo Jenssen
Norway At least 27 people are hospitalized after CO poisoning from a generator at a party in a cellar in the capital Oslo.
About 200 young people 20-30 years old gathered in an abandoned underground cellar in the Norwegian capital Oslo to party.
Emergency response forces at the scene of the poisoning incident in the bunker, Oslo, Norway, today 30/8 Photo: Reuters.
The party started on the night of August 29 and was announced on private social networking sites.
Emil Lorch-Falch, inspector of the Oslo police station, said the underground tunnel has only one entrance about one square meter wide, inside is 500 square meter space located at a depth of 70 meters underground, in the
Lars Magne Hovtun, an official at the city police and rescue department, said when rescuers arrived, the concentration of CO in the underground tunnel was many times the lethal level, while the oxygen concentration was only 16.
They found 7 people unconscious inside the tunnel.
A 20-year-old girl said the party had been going on happily for a few hours, but the lights suddenly went out and the music stopped.
"We were dizzy, nauseous, everything was quite scary. We should have run away, but we had to find a way to pull the other three off little by little, because we don't know how long they stayed there",
The girl said that the people who attended the party could have suffered permanent damage, or even death if the police did not arrive in time.
Police said two people faced a preliminary prosecution decision for the illegal underground tunnel entry, adding that they are still investigating the party and expected more people to be preliminary indicted.
The company that owns the bunker describes the illegal party as a serious hack and insists they are not responsible for the party.
The party organizers claimed that the two diesel generators were in a room with the ventilation system, but neither the police nor the fire department could confirm this.
Carbon monoxide (CO) is a colorless, odorless gas created by burning carbon-based fuels, including gas, oil, wood, and coal.
Inhalation of CO can cause headache, dizziness, nausea, cough, difficulty breathing, and irritation of the eyes, nose and throat, in some cases fatal.
