QUETTA: Eleven people died of suffocation in a house in the Kali Karbala area of Balochistan’s Pishin district on Thursday.

Levies official Asmatullah told Dawn that all victims that included women as well as children were members of the same family and had left the gas generator turned on before going to bed.

On the other hand, senior local administration official Bashir Ahmad Bazai told AFP that, “These people were asleep in the same room and inhaled poisonous gases emitted by an electricity generator installed outside their room.”

The bodies were shifted to Civil Hospital Pishin for postmortem.

Frequent power outages in the area force people to use gas generators to ensure they have electricity and are able to perform day-to-day functions.

The household was also using gas to run the generator but late in the night, the supply got interrupted somehow and upon resumption of supply, the room got filled with gas, leading to death by suffocation of the 11 family members.