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April 5, 2018DES MOINES, Iowa |  By: AP

Mexican official provides more detail on Creston family deaths

A Mexican official says autopsies show the gas that killed an Iowa family was propane that leaked from a faulty water heater at their rented condominium in Mexico.

Investigator Christopher Martinez with the attorney general's office for the state of Quintana Roo says that the water heater had rusted in the humid climate.

Services were held Saturday in Creston for 41-year-old Kevin Sharp and his wife 38-year-old Amy Sharp and their children, 12-year-old Sterling and 7-year-old Adrianna. Their bodies were found March 23 inside the condo in the resort town of Tulum.
 
Amy Sharp's cousin Jana Weland said Wednesday that relatives knew the water heater was the suspected source but that U.S. and Mexican officials hadn't yet said what type of gas the Sharps inhaled.