12 die of suffocation due to gas leak in Pishin

PISHIN: Twelve people of the same family died of suffocation when gas filled in a house due to leakage in Kali Karbala area here on Thursday.
According to a Levies official Asmatullah, all the victims, including three women and nine children, were members of the same family and had left the gas heater turned on before going to bed.
Senior local administration official Bashir Ahmad Bazai said: “These people were asleep in the same room and inhaled poisonous gases emitted by a gas heater.” The bodies were shifted to the Civil Hospital, Pishin, for postmortem. Police started investigation of the incident.
President Mamnoon Hussain, Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, Balochistan chief minister, governor and PTI chief Imran Khan condoled with the victim family over the incident. — INPAFP adds: Nine people, all women and children, died after inhaling noxious fumes from an electricity generator outside their house in Killi Karbala village, 70 kilometres north of Quetta, which borders Iran and Afghanistan.
“These people were asleep in the same room and inhaled poisonous gases emitted by an electricity generator installed outside their room,” senior local administration official Bashir Ahmad Bazai said. He said the nine — three women and six children — were found dead on Thursday morning.