It's actually a very tragic and sad story that could have been prevented, but it's also quite fascinating, in a very macabre way.
In Russia, an eight-year-old girl found the bodies of her parents, brother, and grandmother in a basement after they were poisoned by gas from rotting potatoes.
Eight-year-old Maria Chelysheva's family was killed one by one after entering a cellar where they stored potatoes for the winter, not realizing that the fumes had become incredibly toxic.
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From Huffinton Post:
Her father, Mikhail, 42, was first to enter the cellar, not realising the potatoes had become seriously rotten.
He fainted from the noxious fumes, and soon afterwards died, police said. When he failed to re-appear, his worried wife Anastasia, 38, went to look for him in the dark and was also overcome by the poisonous gas.
Next the couple's 18 year old son Georgy went in search of his parents, only to suffer the same tragic fate as his mother and father after inhaling the highly toxic fumes.
Anastasia's mother Iraida, 68, called a neighbour to say there was something suspicious and to plead for help.
But before assistance arrived, she also went into the cellar, suffocated from the gas, and collapsed and died like the others, say police.It is understood that as she went in, she left the door open, allowing the fumes to disperse.
When Maria entered the cellar, she found the bodies of her whole family on the cellar floor.
The shocking case was at Laishevo, a town near Kazan, in the Russian republic of Tatarstan on the Volga River.
This case is quite jarring. Who knew that potatoes could be deadly?
I personally have a bag of potatoes from last week in my pantry that I need to investigate immediately.
