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Five people die in Maya steam bath in Guatemala
Aug 16, 2011, 8:27 GMT
Guatemala City - Five people died in an indigenous community in northern Guatemala after inhaling carbonic acid during a steam bath in a Maya temazcal, police said Monday.
The accident happened at the community of Acal, in the province of Huehutenango, some 300 kilometres north of Guatemala City.
A 47-year-old woman, her two 18-year-old children and two reported cousins of the teenagers, both 16, were intoxicated for as yet unknown reasons at the temazcal, an igloo-shaped sweat lodge built of mud.
In Huehutenango, on the Mexican border, the use of the pre-Hispanic temazcal is common among the Mam people. It is used in rites, including childbirth.
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