The investigation points to a powerful rodenticide that killed two people in Segovia.

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A powerful pesticide against rodents called aluminum phosphide This may be behind the poisoning of 56-year-old Natividad and his 16-year-old son in a small town in Segovia. That’s what traveling Civil Guard investigators did. to Carbonero de Ahusín yesterday To clarify the horrific events that also left the 58-year-old father of the family, Nicolas, in serious condition at the Segovia hospital.

Several Civil Guard tapes yesterday warning of “biological risk” surrounding the Llorente family’s house next door to some kind of mill where the family dedicates itself to storing and grinding grain and given the high toxicity of the product used, it was recently fumigated by a specialist company, he said.

Researchers are now trying to determine how the family came into contact with this substance as the barn was closed a few days after the stored grain was sprayed with pesticides., as investigative sources explained to EL PERIÓDICO DE ESPAÑA of the Prensa Ibérica group. The Civil Guard suspects that the poison gas may have passed through a vent to the attached house.

Used to deter certain pests, insects or mice, phosphide is very toxic to both humans and animals when exposed to moisture.releases phosphine gas, which is easily absorbed by inhalation or contact.

Civil Guard Robot

Throughout the morning, Civil Guard agents were constantly coming and going into town, conducting a special operation in the area. A remote-controlled robot was tasked with entering both the barn and the house to measure the toxicity of the interior. so much so that later agents from Madrid, wearing CBRN suits, special suits that protect the trunk and extremities from direct exposure to chemical and biological agents, came in to take samples from the inside.

The deaths of Küçük and his mother a day later on Sunday shook the tranquility of this small town of 244 inhabitants, where the family, which was engaged in agriculture and animal husbandry, owned many ships. they are feeding pigsvery well known.

“It’s really amazing, he’s my fifth, 58 years old and I don’t know how many times we’ve been told that he’s dead too. It seems serious, but he’s alive. The family has two more daughters, one in Madrid and the other in the United States.”

The case is in Court of First Instance and Order No. 1 of Santa María la Real de Nieva (Segovia), and the cause of death will be determined by the result of the decedent’s autopsy.

“Right now, all we know tips“, the Government representative in Segovia announced Lirio Martín, while the mayor of the municipality, Sandra Ayuso, refused to make a statement, although she showed her support for her relatives.

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