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Two children in Detroit died of suspected exposure to the cold after being found unresponsive in the van where the family was living Monday, police said. The children, ages 2 and 9, were discovered not breathing by their mother at around noon, Detroit police Capt. Nathan Duda said. They were separately taken to a hospital, where they were pronounced dead, he said. The mother had parked the van at a casino parking garage at around 1 a.m.
“And so that person conveyed both children to Children’s Hospital, where they were pronounced deceased, with the early indicator being that they froze to death,” he said. Three other children survived. There is an open investigation by the police department, Duda said. “It has to be ,” Duda said. “I don’t think anyone really wants to think about that at the moment with the two children passed, but the reality is that the circumstances do have to be examined.
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