Three members of a family at Chhawla in South-West Delhi died of asphyxiation on Saturday when a fire broke out in the room they were sleeping in, said the police.
While 38-year-old Abdul Rehman and his 33-year-old wife Shabnam Parveen were found dead when the police and fire teams entered the house responding to a fire call, their two-year-old son Abdul Faisal died during treatment at Safdarjung Hospital on Sunday morning.
According to the police, they received a call around 8-30 p.m. on Saturday informing them about a fire that had broken out at a house in Hanuman Gali No.11.
“When a police team reached the spot, it found the couple and their son lying unconscious in a room full of smoke. They were rushed to Safdarjung Hospital where Rehman and Shabnam were declared dead on arrival and Faisal was admitted for treatment. He died the next morning,” said a police officer.
Preliminary investigations revealed that the fire was caused by a short circuit. The room could not be ventilated as the windows were closed and the smoke remained concentrated in the gap between the ceiling and the fall ceiling, said family members of the deceased.
The family lived on the ground floor of the house while Rehman’s sister and her husband were staying on the first floor. Rehman worked as a property dealer in Nehru Place while Shabnam was a housewife.
The police have ruled out foul play in the incident.
This is the second such case reported in less than a fortnight. On December 31, another couple and their three-year-old son died due to asphyxiation in South Delhi’s Kotla Mubarakpur.
Police rule out foul play; this is second such death in a fortnight
