Poland: Fire kills 5 teens locked in escape room

WARSAW, Poland — A faulty heating system appeared to have caused a fire at a house in northern Poland where five teenage girls died while locked inside a recreational escape room that was installed in the rented dwelling, investigators said Saturday.

Firefighters in the city of Koszalin found the bodies of the 15-year-old victims Friday after they extinguished a fire in a room adjacent to the one the girls had entered while celebrating a birthday.

Autopsies showed the girls died of carbon monoxide asphyxiation, prosecutors said, using a technical term

A 26-year-old man employed at the location was hospitalized with burns.

Players in escape room games are locked inside a room or building and must solve puzzles and find clues that lead them to the key that will unlock the door. for smoke inhalation. In India: Six children and their bus driver were killed Saturday after their vehicle rolled down a gorge in northern India. Police said another 12 children were hospitalized with injuries as the school bus skidded off the road in Himachal Pradesh state. Around 150,000 people die every year on India’s poorly maintained roads.