Boy who was overcome by fumes released from hospital

By Globe Staff

Jobanny Matias, the 11-year-old from Leominster, who was one of two boys overcome by carbon monoxide in an idling car last week in Lunenburg, has recovered enough to be released from the hospital, the Worcester County district attorney's office said today.

The other boy who was in the car, Alejandro Thomasian, 9, of Fitchburg, died Sunday of carbon monoxide poisoning.

The boys were four-wheeling with their fathers and another man in a wooded area Friday when one of their three vehicles became stuck in muddy water that had collected on a low point in the road, officials have said. The boys were overcome by the carbon monoxide as they sat in the back seat of the idling Jeep, keeping warm while the men worked to free the vehicle.

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