Victim of Kitchener, Ont. carbon monoxide poisoning identified
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The 25-year-old man who died from carbon monoxide poisoning at a Kitchener, Ont. home on Tuesday has now been identified by family and friends as Nil Patel.
The man who died from carbon monoxide poisoning at a Kitchener, Ont. home on Tuesday has now been identified by family and friends as Nil Patel.
A spokesperson for the Patel family said the 25-year-old moved from India to Canada in 2018 and had recently graduated from Conestoga College.
“He was a very hard working boy,” said family spokesperson Don Patel, who is not related to Nil Patel. “That shows on that particular day also, he was the first to get up for work that day. He got up at 5 a.m., he was working from home, his work starts at 5:30 a.m.”
Nil Patel had been living in a townhome on Activa Avenue with other young people from the same region in India.
According to a GoFundMe page set up by his family, Patel had obtained his work permit in 2020 and was working tirelessly to get permanent residency.
“Nil had a dream, a dream that he would return back to India and visit his parents in the village of Moti Karod to show them his [permanent residency] status,” the post by Meghaben Patel read. “No one would have imagined that Nil is no longer with us, and left us in the way that he did.”
On Tuesday morning, Patel was found dead in his Activa Avenue home from carbon monoxide poisoning.
