BIJNOR
: Four members of the family of a
truck
driver, along with two of their young relatives, died of toxic fumes emitted from a
coal brazier
kept inside the room they were sleeping in, while another of their relatives remains critical. The incident took place at Amroha's
Dhakka Mod village
on Monday night but came to light late on Tuesday.
While the truck driver, identified as Mohd Raeesuddin, was not home at the time of the incident, his wife Husn Jahan (40) and three children - daughter Sonam (19), sons Zaid (16) and Mahir (12) - were there in the room along with Riyasat, Husn Jahan's hearing- and speech-impaired brother, who had come to visit the family along with his daughter Mahak (13) and niece Kashish (8). Both children also perished in the incident, while Riyasat's condition is said to be critical.
"At first, I thought they did not come out of their house because of the cold. But in the evening, when I looked through the window, I saw them lying unconscious. I broke open the door and informed the police," their relative Gabruddin, who lives in the same village, said.
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