Two children who appeared to have frozen to death while living in a van in Detroit last month actually died of carbon monoxide poisoning, officials said.

The cause of death of two young children who were sleeping in their family's van was revealed to be carbon monoxide poisoning and not exposure to the cold as Detroit authorities first thought.

DETROIT, MI – The Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office determined the two children found not breathing in a minivan outside Detroit’s Greektown Casino died of carbon monoxide poisoning, Fox 2 Detroit reports. Police originally thought the two children, Darnell Currie Jr., 9, and A’millah Currie, 2, froze to death on Feb. 10.