Cleanup Gone Wrong: Five suffocate in water tank
At least five people died of suffocation after going inside an underground water tank to clean it at their house in Bhains Colony, within Sukkan police limits, on Friday.
Police said that Bakht Zada, 13, son of Gul Zada, was the first to go into the tank, but reportedly fell unconscious. Naseem Zada, 15, and Taj Mir, 22, went in to rescue their brother. Bakht’s cousin, Sher Hassan, 18, and a neighbor, Ghufran, 35, son of Khan Mohammad, followed Naseem and Mir, but also fell conscious. A large number of neighbours gathered outside the house and called the police and volunteers from welfare organisations for help. The men were later pulled out and taken to the Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, where doctors pronounced them dead.
Their bodies were handed to families after medico-legal formalities had been completed. SHO Sarfaraz Ali informed that the water tank was full of gas, and that the doctors said that all the men died due to gas suffocation.
Published in The Express Tribune, June 2nd, 2012.
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Why am I reading the same story hundredth time since I was a kid, that half the village men went into the gas filled well one after the other and died thinking they will too find the "secret treasure" the other men found in there? Where are the town's wise men who should warn of large enclosed empty metal or earth cavities that produce & trap gases that can't escape due to their weight. Atleast one man could have tied a rope around his waist so can be pulled out if it gone limp etc.It also remind me of whole families used to get electrocuted due to the lack of knowledge of the killing power of electricity, while trying to pull their dead beloved away from the exposed wire, one after the other. Lesson: When you laugh at creativity or new ways of doing things you close all doors for your own Future health & safety or any Economic development.