António Pedro Santos / Lusa
Spanish authorities investigate the cause of five deaths in the country on Monday that one thinks they are related to the blackout in the Iberian Peninsula.
A family of three people aged 56 to 81 was found dead today at home in a locality in Ourense, Galicia (northern Spain), by alleged carbon monoxide poisoning.
According to the local local authority and the Civil Guard Police Force, the possibility of the intoxication was being investigated by the poor combustion of a generator of energy used by the family during the blackout.
The same sources told various Spanish media that the oldest man in the family used a respirator and that the generator was used to feed this device.
The victims are a couple and their son and corpses were found today at home by firefighters.
In a neighborhood of Madrid, a 52 -year -old woman in a fire in the house where she lived.
According to the Spain National Police, the first investigations indicate that the fire, declared around 10 pm local (21h00 in Lisbon), was caused by a velaat a time when electricity was still being replaced in some areas of Madrid.
Others 13 people received medical assistance for poisoning with smoke In the same fire in the Carabanchel neighborhood of Madrid and several were rescued from the building on fire by the firefighters, local authorities said.
In a locality of Valencia, a 46 -year -old woman who depended on an oxygen machine to breathein a case where there seems to be more doubts on the part of the authorities regarding a possible connection with the blackout.
According to the first information released by the Valencian police, the woman died after, allegedly, the machine that it depended on having left without energy.
However, sources of local health services revealed that it was a person with various pathologies and that only needed to use the oxygen machine for a few hours a day.
According to the same sources, medical services considered, in the first diagnosis, that the woman died from “natural causes.”
The woman was found dead today at emergency services, the National Police told the Spanish news agency Efe.
300 me insured losses
In the neighboring country, losses related to business interruptions after Monday’s blackout can lead to large compensation of insurers, which can reach 300 million euros.
In a note sent today, DBRs signals that energy failure can lead to an increase in claims related to residential, commercial, travel and business interruption.
“Although it is difficult to provide an estimate of insured losses in the current situation, our initial expectation is that the insured losses range between 100 and 300 million euros in Spain and a fraction of this in Portugal“, The financial notation agency points out.
Still, Dbrs points out that “Total economic losses will be several times larger than these estimates”.
With regard to travel insurance holders, they should be “right to any compensation due to major rail transport interruptions and flight cancellations, however, this may be widely mitigated due to the slow return to normal services the next day.”
I and incidence of car accidents “seems to be small”Note A DBRS
