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An 11-year-old boy died in a mobile home with no heat during the winter storm in Texas, and authorities suspect he had hypothermia

Feb 20, 2021, 03:21 IST
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A woman walks on an empty street on February 15, 2021 in East Austin, TexasMontinique Monroe/Getty Images
  • Cristian Pavon's family was left without heat or power during a rare snowstorm this week.
  • The 11-year-old died on Tuesday. His family and authorities suspect the cause was hypothermia.
  • His family was among the millions of people in Texas who lost power this week.
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An 11-year-old boy died on Tuesday in an unheated mobile home in Texas that had lost power during a massive winter storm. His family and officials suspect he had hypothermia.

Cristian Pavon was one of at least 30 people in Texas who died this week as temperatures plunged and millions of homes went without power for days, The Washington Post reported.

The boy's mother, Maria Pineda, told Univision that her home in Conroe, near Houston, had lost power over the weekend and that temperatures had dropped into the single digits.

She said Cristian had gone to sleep under a pile of blankets on Monday. "He was OK," Pineda told Univision, adding that Cristian "had dinner, he played, and he went to bed."

But Cristian didn't respond when she and his stepfather tried to wake him up on Tuesday, she said.

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Cristian's aunt, Jaliza Yera, told KTRK, an ABC affiliate in Houston, that the family called 911 and performed CPR until officials arrived.

Now officials are investigating whether he died of hypothermia, The Post reported.

Sgt. Jeff Smith of the Conroe Police Department told the Houston Chronicle that Cristian "was a normal, healthy child."

Cristian's family is raising money to transport the boy's body to Honduras, where they are from.

More than 4 million people in Texas lost power this week because of a devastating storm. It affected neighboring states with similarly cold weather and rolling blackouts.

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At least 47 people have died in the cold snap, The Post reported. Some are thought to have died from exposure to the cold or in house fires, while others died of carbon-monoxide poisoning.

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