In a tragic incident, six people of a family died due to suffocation in a gas leak incident in Hangu on Tuesday.

According to a report by Bol News, the six people, including three children, died when their house located in Hangu’s Gulshan Colony was filled with gas.

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According to rescue officials, the victims were asleep at night with a gas heater on, causing the room to fill with gas and suffocating to death.

The dead included a man and two women, and three children. Police shifted all the bodies to the hospital and started further investigation.

On December 18, 17 people lost their lives in a gas explosion in Karachi, while several others were injured.

Police had said that the explosion went off in a bank building in the Shershah area. Meanwhile, TV footage showed the two-floor structure’s windows and doors blown out, with documents scattered across a wide area.

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The bomb disposal squad (BDS) had also confirmed that the explosion occurred due to gas leakage.