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Two die of suffocation in Bara

By by our correspondent
April 14, 2019

BARA: Two persons died of suffocation and three others fainted after inhaling poisonous gas inside a well in Bara tehsil of the Khyber tribal district on Saturday, official and local sources said.

The sources said one Ahmad Khan and Abdul Rehman were cleaning the well in Milward area in Akakhel when they fell unconscious.

As a result, Ahmad and Abdul Rehman died on the spot.

Three other people fainted when they went down the well to retrieve the bodies. They were taken to a hospital in Peshawar.