WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A New Zealand mother who needed an electric oxygen pump to breathe died after an energy company cut the power to her home due to an unpaid bill, her family claimed Wednesday.Police said they launched an investigation into the death of Folole Muliaga, 44, on Tuesday, in the northern city of Auckland, which happened within hours of state-owned company Mercury Energy cutting power to her house Mercury general manager, James Moulder, said the company was devastated by the woman's death and was conducting its own investigation to determine what happened.He refused to say how much money Muliaga had owed the companyMuliaga, a schoolteacher with four children ages 5 to 20, had been off work since February with an illness when a Mercury Energy rep arrived on Tuesday to cut the electricity, said Sheehan, a nephew of uliaga's.
and her son told the technician she was dependent on the oxygen machine to live but he cut the power and left ,911 was called she but she died
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