Father, four children asphyxiated to death at Sadiqabad

A father and his four children were choked to death in a house, where a fire pan lit to ward off the winter chill emitting smokes vitiated the atmosphere within to such an extent that made breathing impossible.

Head of the family Abdul Khalique Arain and his four children Sobia Perveen, 14; Abdul Razzaque, 11; Sania, 8 and Ramsha, 5 died of asphyxiation in a house located at Chak Asmatullah of Kot Sabzal near here the Tehsil of Rahimyar Khan, when the emitting smokes from a winter fire pan turned the atmosphere within poisonous and made their breathing impossible.

The mother of the unfortunate children along with one child had gone to her parents’ house. The police reaching the scene of incident got the autopsy of the bodies conducted and handed them to the heirs.