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Cumbrian boat pair 'die from carbon monoxide poisoning' Cumbrian boat pair 'die from carbon monoxide poisoning'
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A woman and a girl have died from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning on a boat on Windermere in Cumbria. Carbon monoxide poisoning is thought to have claimed the lives of a woman and 10-year-old girl on a boat in Cumbria.
North West Ambulance Service said the pair were found on a private boat by the jetty near Glebe Road, Bowness, just after 16:00 BST. A man who was also on the privately-owned vessel on Windermere is seriously ill in hospital after the incident on Monday afternoon.
They went into cardiac arrest and were taken by air ambulance to the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. The 36-year-old woman and the girl, from the Leyland area of Lancashire, were airlifted to Royal Lancaster Infirmary where they both died.
Cumbria Police later reported the woman, 36, and girl, aged 10, were dead. Post-mortem examinations are due to be carried out later.
The force said it was called to reports that three people on a private boat were having serious breathing difficulties. It is understood one theory involves the use of a generator on the boat, which may have been faulty.
The woman and the girl, both from the Leyland area of Lancashire, were treated at the scene before being taken to hospital. Cumbria Police said officers were called to reports that three people on the boat were having serious breathing difficulties.
A man, who was also on the boat, is being treated at the Royal Lancaster Infirmary. Breathing masks
Eyewitness Joshua Kynaston, 16, of Bolton, said paramedics took the three people off the boat to treat them. A spokeswoman said: "Police are investigating the circumstances of this tragic incident and trying to establish the full facts about what has happened. The coroner has been informed."
They were then taken to hospital by air ambulance, he said. The incident, at a jetty near Bowness, was witnessed by Dragon's Den star Duncan Bannatyne, who remarked on the police and ambulance activity to his followers on Twitter.
A police spokesman said officers were investigating "the circumstances of this tragic incident and trying to establish the full facts about what has happened". He later posted a photograph of the scene, saying: "Tragic accident over there I am afraid."
Other eyewitnesses reported seeing firefighters entering the boat wearing breathing masks.
Joshua Kynaston, from Bolton, said: "I was in an ice-cream shop in Bowness when I heard ambulances.
"Shortly after they started racing up and down the road until they stopped right in front of me. The medics jumped out and ran towards the boat.
"The medics jumped aboard the boat and pulled the victims off.
"From where I was, I could partly see past the sheet where the medics were still working hard and dragging defibrillators and other portable medical machinery from the ambulances.
"Someone was taken off in a helicopter. Another person had countless amounts of CPR.
"Some of the firemen started to board the problem ship to search for the leak. They were in full suits with air tanks, not oxygen tanks."
Nigel Wilkinson, from Windermere Lake Cruises, said public cruisers were diverted while the emergency services worked at the scene.
He said police, fire, ambulance, lake wardens, community first responders and the Great North Air Ambulance and the North West Air Ambulance were all involved.
He said there was a feeling of "great sadness" in the area.