Twelve people, including four children aged 4-10, died of carbon monoxide poisoning in the northern Argentine province of Jujuy. The victims were all members of the same extended family, and a neighbour found the bodies late Thursday inside a makeshift home in the village of Caspala, dpa quoted police as saying. The deaths were allegedly caused by a faulty diesel-fuelled power generator that the family used since there are no power lines in the area for home heating. The remote village of Caspala, at an altitude of 3,000 metres, could until 2008 only be reached on horseback.
