MUZAFFARABAD, March 2: A woman and minor were suffocated by gas while another family member was found unconscious in a house at Mirpur district of Azad Kashmir.

Police sources said on Sunday the incident occurred sometime on Saturday night in Kathar village of tehsil Dadyal after gas leaking from an LPG cylinder filled a room of the house where the victims were asleep.

The woman was identified as Mehfuza Bibi, wife of Gul Mohammad, but the name of the 10-year-old boy, son of Banaras Khan, could not be ascertained. The boy’s mother, Fazal Begum, was found unconscious and admitted to a hospital.

KILLED: A man was stabbed to death allegedly by six people over a land dispute. Police said Rahim Dad Abbasi, son of Miskeen Abbasi, was stabbed by Faraz, Tazeem, Mahmood, Famood, Mansha and Karim in Barora village at around 9:40am and fled. Dad Abbasi died on the spot.

Meanwhile, the police found a dead body identified that of Raja Iqbal of Bugna Khairabad village.

INJURED: Four policemen were injured, one of them critically, in two separate incidents when avalanches hit them here on Sunday in Leepa Valley.