Family of five dies of suffocation following exposure to gas in Abbottabad

Family left gas heater on which caused suffocation in the room, say police officials

All five members of a family suffocated to death caused by gas accumulated into the room in Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa's Abbottabad district on Sunday.

According to police, husband, wife and their three children died after their exposure to gas, Express News reported.

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.



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.



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.