BADIN: A newly-wed couple was found dead in their sleep in the bedroom in ward No.3, Golarchi town, on Tuesday. The death was reportedly caused by suffocation after gas leaking from a pipe in the attached bathroom filled the room during night.

The victims’ relatives said that Imran Gujjar, 28, and had married Sadia Gujjar, 25, in Karachi and brought her to his home on Monday. They had dinner in their vlaima and went to sleep in the bedroom, they said.

When they did not wake up in the morning the next day even after loud banging on the door, the family members broke open the door and found the couple lying unconscious, they said.

They reported the matter to police and rushed the couple to Golarchi taluka hospital where doctors pronounced them dead, they said.

Police officials said the primary cause of death appeared to be suffocation due to gas leakage but the real cause would be determined by post mortem. The police further were investigating the case, they said.

Newborn baby found dead

Body of a newborn baby was found at a desolated place near Sindh Uni­versity, Laar campus, on Tuesday.

The baby had apparently been left there by someone to die. Some passerby spotted the body after they saw stray dogs pulling it between them and informed police, who removed it to nearby graveyard to be buried.

Published in Dawn, February 14th, 2024