Uttar Pradesh: 3 children suffocate to death after TV explodes

  • | Thursday | 4th April, 2019

He added, “It appears that the four fell asleep while watching TV that later caught fire following a short circuit. “Four children, identified as Fardeen (8), brother Shaanu (10) and cousins Shikha (10) and Shabnam (12), were watching TV at Fardeen’s house Tuesday night. While the bodies of three were found in the room Wednesday morning, another kid was found unconscious outside the room and is now out of danger. AdvertisingAccording to the police, the three children, aged between 8 and 12 years, were in the room along with another sibling when a short circuit in the TV caused an explosion. Fardeen’s mother was away at a relative’s place and the father, a truck driver and was also not at home.

THREE KIDS died of suffocation after the room they were sleeping in was filled with toxic fumes caused by the explosion of a television set kept there in Civil Lines police station area of Badaun district Tuesday night. Advertising According to the police, the three children, aged between 8 and 12 years, were in the room along with another sibling when a short circuit in the TV caused an explosion. While the bodies of three were found in the room Wednesday morning, another kid was found unconscious outside the room and is now out of danger. “Four children, identified as Fardeen (8), brother Shaanu (10) and cousins Shikha (10) and Shabnam (12), were watching TV at Fardeen’s house Tuesday night. Fardeen’s mother was away at a relative’s place and the father, a truck driver and was also not at home. On Wednesday morning, Fardeen’s uncle (father of Shikha and Shabnam) went to the house to find Shaanu lying unconscious outside the room and the others dead inside,” said Om Prakash Gautam, SHO of Civil Lines police station. He added, “It appears that the four fell asleep while watching TV that later caught fire following a short circuit. The room filled with smoke as it was bolted from inside and probably Shaanu woke up feeling suffocated and ran out of the room. He lost consciousness outside the room. He was taken to hospital by his uncle and is now stable.” The postmortem report of the deceased were awaited, the SHO said.

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