The deputy mayor of Straseni Elena Pereu is in a coma at the Saint Trinity Hospital in Chisinau, where she was admitted unconscious on January 19. She suffered a serious positioning in her home following a fault in the heating system. Contacted by IPN, toxicologist Georgel Caraja said the women’s state is serious.

Her son aged 12 was admitted to the Mother and Child Institute. The Institute’s press officer Natalia Lisnic told IPN that the minor is in a coma and was connected to mechanical ventilation. His state has been very serious since hospitalization.

The father was found dead by a relative, who called an ambulance.

The police established that the heating system didn’t have ventilation channels and the shaft didn’t meet the safety rules.