KARACHI, Aug 27: A man died and his wife and daughter fell unconscious after inhaling exhaust fumes of an electric generator in their house in Defence on late Monday night.

Police said following a power breakdown Mairajuddin, aged 40, turned on an electric generator in his house in Khayaban-i-Bahria, Defence Housing Authority. Mairaj fell asleep in the TV lounge, and his wife Nigar, aged 35, and daughter Ramshah, aged 10, went to bed in another room. Mairaj’s two sons also slept in their room.

Police said the dead man kept the generator running in the kitchen close to the TV lounge, thus exposing himself directly to the exhaust fumes. In the early hours of Tuesday morning, his two sons woke and found their house filled with the generator’s exhaust fumes and their parents unconscious.

The boys informed their relations who informed police and rushed to the house. They rushed Mairaj, his wife and daughter to Jinnah Post-graduate Medical Centre (JPMC) where doctors pronounced Mairaj dead on arrival. The mother and the daughter were admitted to the hospital. They regained consciousness by Tuesday evening.

Mairaj worked with an insurance company.

The relations of the dead man did not allow post-mortem and took away the body, sources at the JPMC said.

A man was burnt to death while trying to start an electric generator when power went off in Gulshan-i-Iqbal, Block 2, on Tuesday night.

Islamauddin, resident of Abid Plaza, aged 50 years, holding a candle in his hand, was trying to start an electric generator when the fuel caught fire. He was burnt to death, police said.