KOHAT: Six persons, including three children, suffocated due to gas leak in Hangu city in the wee hours on Tuesday.

Rescue 1122 officials said the deaths occurred as the inmates left the gas heater on while going to sleep in Gulshan Colony.

The room where the victims were sleeping got filled with gas leaking from the heater, thus suffocating them.

The deceased were identified as Nadir Khan, his wife Niswara Jana, Minhas Bibi, 28, her three-year-old daughter Saima, Aima Bibi, 11, and one-year-old Khon Shira Bibi.

The bodies were handed over to relatives after autopsy at a local hospital.

Published in Dawn, December 29th, 2021

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