Piotrków Kujawski. The young mayor and his father are dead. Prosecutor's office about the cause of death

Prosecutor Arkadiusz Arkuszewski, press spokesman for the District Prosecutor's Office in Włocławek, announced the preliminary cause of death of both men in an interview with tvn24.pl.

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– The preliminary cause of death for both men is carbon monoxide poisoning. The opinion will be issued only after obtaining a test for the presence of carbon monoxide hemoglobin and after carrying out toxicological tests, the prosecutor said.

On Sunday at 1:34 p.m., the fire brigade was alerted about unconscious men in a single-family house in Palczewo. It is a village in the Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship, Radziejów County, Piotrków Kujawski Commune. Carbon monoxide poisoning was suspected.

– It turned out that the unconscious men were already dead. One was 67 years old, the other 32. They are father and son, says junior brigadier Michał Sochaczewski from the State Fire Service in Radziejów.

Sochaczewski confirmed that the younger man was Krystian Betliński, mayor of Piotrków Kujawski.

Krystian Betliński became mayor in this year's local elections. In the second round, he defeated the incumbent mayor Sławomir Bogucki. They both ran from local committees. He was a teacher by profession, before becoming mayor, he taught at a primary school in Piotrków Kujawski.

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Friends of the Volunteer Fire Department in Piotrków Kujawski said goodbye to the mayor on social media. “Our Mayor and Friend passed away along with his Father. The memories and the image of a good man like Krystian Betliński will remain with us. Thank you for the good times. Goodbye, but not goodbye!” – wrote volunteer firefighters.