Six of a family suffocate to death in Gujrat house fire

According to the police, young men and women, aged between 20 to 22, were among the dead

GUJARAT: At least six members of a family suffocated to death in a house fire in the Aach-Goch village of Gujrat early Sunday, Express News reported.

The smoke from the house alerted the neighbours who rushed to the residence. They found that the fire had erupted in the room where the family was asleep.

The police identified the victims as Amanat Ali, Kashif, Zobia, Madiha, Faisal and Zaheer. The young men and women aged between 20 to 22 years.



Separately, a two-day-old infant burnt to death when an incubator caught fire in the intensive care unit (ICU) of the National Institute of Child Health (NICH) in Karachi.

A four-member committee has been formed to probe the incident, which occurred in one of the largest paediatric hospitals in the province.

The blaze erupted in the incubator at around 7 am in the morning. Parents of other children present in the ward started crying and trying to rescue their infants placed in other incubators in the room.

“There was no staff member present when the fire broke out,” said Abida, the deceased baby’s grandmother, who witnessed the incident. “I cried out but no one came to rescue our baby.”