Poisonous well gas kills three of a family

A man, his two sons and a labourer were killed due to poisonous gas in a well at Godha Thathi Bajwa village in Badiana police limits on Thursday.

The well of Mukhtar Ahmad had been abandoned and out of use for the last 10 years. On the day of the incident, Mukhtar planned to clean the well and make it functional. He along with labourer Arshad entered the well and fell unconscious due to poisonous gas. When they did not come out of the well, Mukhtar’s sons Azhar and Mazhar also entered the well to rescue them but unfortunately they also fainted. As a result, all the four died in the well. Rescue 1122 pulled the bodies out of the well after a three-hour operation.