Twelve people were found deadapparently from carbon monoxide poisoning, in the dormitories located near a restaurant in ski resort her Georgiathe police announced.

“Preliminary examinations do not reveal any traces of violence on the bodies” of the victims, 11 of whom are foreign nationals and one Georgian national, who were found “in the dormitories on the second floor of an Indian restaurant in Gundauri”, a ski resort in the north of the country, according to with the same source.

The bodies were found on Saturday.

Photo of the premises at the foot of the mountain shows that it is a three-storey restaurant with the upper part probably used for staff accommodation.

According to the first elements of the investigation, a generator had been placed “near the rooms” and “inside the building”, the Georgian authorities say.

“This oil generator was apparently put into operation because there was a power outage in the building” on Friday, according to the same source.

An investigation has been launched and forensic examinations have been ordered to establish the exact cause of death of the 12.