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Generator`s fumes claim three lives

2012-04-12
MULTAN, April 11: Two teenaged siblings and their nine-year-old cousin died after inhaling fumes emitted by an electricity generator in Sarai Sidhu village in Khanewal district on Tuesday night.

The police said Rana Muhammad Saleem`s two sons, 16-year-old Abdul Rehman, a Class-VIII student, and 13-yearold Muhammad Umair, a Class-VII student, and a nephew, Adeel, a Class-IV student, were sleeping in a room where a generator was working with natural gas. The fumes generated by the generator caused respiratory problem for the boys and they died on the spot.

-Staff Correspondent