Five members of a family died of suffocation caused by gas leak in Qalandarabad area of Abbotabad in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa on Sunday night because gas accumulated into the room, South Punjab News reported.
police said, husband, wife and their three children died after their exposure to gas
Due to extreme cold temperature, the family left the gas heater on which caused suffocation in the room, according to police officials.
Deceased children were of age eight, seven and five approximately. Rescue personnel shifted the bodies to a nearby hospital for examination.
According to police, Naveed Ahmed along with his family, including his wife and three children aged from three to seven years, went to sleep in a room of the house, but forgot to switch off a gas heater. All the five were found dead on next morning.
Police insisted performing autopsy of the bodies of the victims, but the relatives refused.
However, the Qalandarabad police registered FIR and started further investigations.
Later, funeral prayers of the victims were held amid touching scenes.
People of the area told South Punjab News that as many as eight persons lost their lives due to unscheduled gas loadshedding in different incidents in the village Bandi Dhonda and Lambi Dheri in Abbottabad on Sunday. Afzal Ahmed, his wife Danish and minor son Salar Khan of Lambi Dheri were suffocated to death due to gas leakage from the heater which was not switched off by them before going to bed on Saturday night. The heater went off due to low gas pressure. After restoration of gas supply, the room was filled with the gas which resulted into their death due to suffocation. Fortunately, their two daughters remained alive as they were at the house of their grandmother. The house owner, Wahid Gul, told APP that they had been contacting Afzal on his cell phone, but received no response. When he along with his in-laws entered the house after breaking the doors, the three family members were found dead, he added.
People of the area told South Punjab News that as many as eight persons lost their lives due to unscheduled gas loadshedding in different incidents in the village Bandi Dhonda and Lambi Dheri in Abbottabad on Sunday. Afzal Ahmed, his wife Danish and minor son Salar Khan of Lambi Dheri were suffocated to death due to gas leakage from the heater which was not switched off by them before going to bed on Saturday night. The heater went off due to low gas pressure. After restoration of gas supply, the room was filled with the gas which resulted into their death due to suffocation. Fortunately, their two daughters remained alive as they were at the house of their grandmother. The house owner, Wahid Gul, told APP that they had been contacting Afzal on his cell phone, but received no response. When he along with his in-laws entered the house after breaking the doors, the three family members were found dead, he added.
Similarly, five members of a family, including three children, were also found dead due to suffocation because of gas in the Bandi Dhondan village. According to police sources, the heater was left on by the family in their room before going to sleep, which went off due to zero gas pressure. The room was filled with gas when its supply resumed late night, causing the death of five family members, including Naveed Khan, his wife Sadat Bibi, 7-year old Moiz Ali, 6-year old Hassan Ali and 4-year old Ahad Ali. Their bodies were recovered by their neighbourers, who entered the house after breaking the main door in the morning. The bodies were shifted to hospital where the postmortem confirmed that the deaths occurred due to suffocation. The bodies were handed over to heirs for burial. Grief and sorrow prevailed in the area due to the tragedy.
Earlier on December 8, Syeda Fatemi, an assistant director at the ministry of foreign affairs, along with her husband died of asphyxiation after a gas leakage in their hotel room in Hunza on Saturday.
Earlier on December 8, Syeda Fatemi, an assistant director at the ministry of foreign affairs, along with her husband died of asphyxiation after a gas leakage in their hotel room in Hunza on Saturday.
The couple was on their honeymoon after they had tied the knot on November 29. The couple’s postmortem at the Civil Hospital Hunza confirmed the cause of death to be suffocation.Foreign Office official, husband die of suffocation in Hunza hotel room
Fatemi was from the 42nd common training programme and had been stationed at the common diplomacy section of the foreign office.
She had just completed a training course from France and originally belonged to Attock. Fatemi was also a position holder at the special diplomacy course.
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