Women killed by fumes from gas cooker

TWO elderly women died from carbon monoxide poisoning after a grill door on a cooker was left closed.

Friends and neighbours Annie ‘Nana’ Gallagher, 84, and Sarah ‘Sally’ McDyer, 79, were found dead at Ms Gallagher’s home in Glenties, Co Donegal, on September 24, 2009.

The joint inquest into the deaths was held in Letterkenny yesterday before coroner Dr Denis McCauley.