Carbon monoxide fumes kill French tourists in Italy

An Italian news agency reports that two French tourists have died of carbon monoxide poisoning in northwest Italy. The ANSA news agency said the 57-year-old tourists were found dead on Tuesday in a two-room house in Monterosso Grana, a small mountain town near Cuneo, in the Piedmont region that borders France. It quoted rescue crew as saying one of the two wood-burning stoves in the house was lit when they arrived and carbon monoxide saturated the rooms.

The identities of the tourists weren't immediately released.