A British couple have been found dead from suspected carbon monoxide poisoning at their home in Majorca.
Police were alerted after a person looking after the country home went to the property because their worried son who lives in the UK couldn’t contact them.
He found one of the bodies on a chair and the other in bed.
The grim discovery was made about 4pm on Monday at the property in Selva at the foot of the Tramuntana mountains, regarded as one of the island’s most beautiful towns.
A Civil Guard source said post-mortem investigations had yet to take place but investigators were probing the theory the deaths were potentially linked to the faulty combustion of a butane gas heater or chimney inside the house.
Forensic specialists were still at the scene on Monday night.
The British pair, whose bodies are thought to have been undiscovered for two days, have not yet been named.
The police force has yet to make any official comment and officers said the results of the autopsies will be key to determining what direction the ongoing probe takes.
The bodies are thought to have lain undiscovered for at least two days.
The house where they lived is between Selva, which has a population of around 4,000 people and Manacor.
Selva’s mayor Joan Rotger told regional TV station IB3 the most probable hypothesis being considered was that of poisoning linked to gas combustion.
He went to the scene Monday as soon as he was told of the news.
There were no immediate reports of any signs of violence at the British couple’s house.
They are said to have bought the property where they were found dead around a year and a half ago.
Carbon monoxide is a colourless and odourless gas, but can be deadly.
