West Bank brothers died from suffocating on toxic gas at fishing plant, coroner says

NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – The Plaquemines Parish Coroner’s Office said Thursday (Oct. 29) that two brothers died at a fishing plant in September from suffocating on hydrogen sulfide gas released by decomposing fish.

The coroner said one brother died trying to save the other Sept. 4 and that their deaths were both accidents.

Plaquemines Parish Coroner Dr. Neil Wolfson identified the men last month as Yesser, 26, and Eliott, 31, Rizo-Acevedo. Wolfson said the men lived in Terrytown and Gretna respectively…

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