Sitapur, 8 Jan: UP Police reported on Sunday that four members of a family died in their sleep here, possibly from asphyxia after leaving a gas heater on inside their room overnight. A milkman knocked on the door of the family’s residence in Jhajjar area on Sunday, but no one replied, they claimed.
On Saturday night, Asif (35), a clerk at a nearby madarsa, his wife Shagufta (32) and their children Zaid (3) and Mayra (2) went to bed with a gas heater in their room. According to Circle Officer (CO) Bisva Abhishek Pratap, they were smothered by the gas heater and were discovered dead on Sunday morning.
When police arrived, they smashed through the door and discovered all of the family members asleep on a bed. They were taken to the Bisva community health centre, where physicians pronounced them dead, according to Pratap.
