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Four members of same family from India die of suffocation in Rupandehi

RUPANDEHI, Jan 30: Four members of the same family from the Indian state of Bihar died of suffocation inside a house in Rupandehi in the wee hours of Thursday.
By MOHAMMAD HABIB

RUPANDEHI, Jan 30: Four members of the same family from the Indian state of Bihar died of suffocation inside a house in Rupandehi in the wee hours of Thursday.


The bodies of 30-year-old Sahajad Hussain, his wife 28-year-old Saddab Khatun and their six-year-old son Sultan Raja and two-year-old daughter Sahina Khatun were found dead beneath a pile of gunny sacks inside the house when they were in deep sleep at a rented room at Gallamandi Pipariya of Siddharthanagar municipality.


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Police Inspector at the District Police Office Keshav Gyawali said that the stack of gunny sacks they had collected collapsed and crushed them in the midnight. Late Sahajad, a rag picker, had been living in the area for 15 years.


According to Gyawali, the bodies have been kept at Bhim Hospital in Bhairahawa for post-mortem.


 

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