Five people including three children died due to suffocation in the provincial capital Quetta and adjoining town Kuchlak during the night between Saturday and Sunday.
Police sources said gas supply to the areas was suspended on Saturday night. Later, when people were sleeping, gas supply was restored, which caused suffocation. It further said that a couple identified as Salman and his wife Gul Khanam were killed in their house Hazara Town of Quetta City. Similarly, three children of Molvi Rehmatullah died in Khuchlak Town, some 25 kilometres from Quetta. They were identified as 10-year-old Hikmat, eight-year-old Zul-Qaida and 13-year-old Shakira Bibi. The bodies were handed over to the heirs after legal formalities, police added.