Gas cookers made by the country’s top large home-appliance brand Beko may be linked to 18 fatalities in the UK and Ireland.
This week a coroner will probe five deaths from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning that are believed to have involved a faulty range of Beko cookers.
The cookers are now known to have emitted the deadly gas when the grill was incorrectly used with the door shut. Kevin Branton, 32, and his pal Richard Smith, 30, were found dead in their house in Saltash, Cornwall, in November 2010.
Audrey Cook, 86, husband Alfred, 90, and their daughter Maureen, 47, died at their static caravan in Camborne, Cornwall, in February 2013.
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