Poisonous gases: Toxic sewage kills dual brothers

BAHAWALPUR: Two brothers died after inhaling poisonous gases inside a cesspool in Bahawalpur on Saturday.

A proprietor of Yazman’s Chak 113 named Nadeem Pehlwan wanted to puncture a gutter line for his residence and hired a dual brothers, residents of Chak 117, military and rescuers said.

The victims named Ameer Baksh and Kala started digging a place though sewage from an adjoining gutter flowed into a array dug by a labourers. The workers inhaled a lethal multiple of poisonous gases and H2O and fainted inside a sewer.

Kala, 28, died on a mark while his 26-year-old hermit was shifted to a Ahmadpur East tehsil domicile hospital. He could not tarry and died during a hospital.

Published in The Express Tribune, Jan 15th, 2017.

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