A lawsuit was filed against Airbnb on June 16, stating that American Sebastian Mejia died of carbon monoxide poising in an Airbnb-rented Rio de Janeiro apartment. The young scholar on Latin American indigenous people was just 24.
The suit, filed in California Superior Court in San Francico, states that on October 5, 2022, Sebastian turned on the hot water heater in the bathroom to take a shower. Due to what a Brazilian police investigation revealed was an improperly installed and damaged exhaust duct, the hot water heater began emitting dangerously high levels of carbon monoxide into the bathroom.
According to the suit, Mejia’s body was found
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