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Two dead, 14 injured during traditional ceremony in New Mexico

Albuquerque, N.M. • The call for help came at 8:30 a.m. from an especially secluded pocket of the Navajo Nation: A man and woman were unresponsive inside a traditional structure and 14 others were suffering from smoke inhalation after a nighttime ceremony.

Navajo Nation police said Wednesday they are still investigating what happened at the weekend gathering in Alamo, N.M., about 83 miles southwest of Albuquerque. They have not yet said how the man and woman died or released their identities.

Both were found Sunday morning on the floor of the hogan, a dome-roofed home that can have six or eight sides, authorities said.