SHO dies due to gas suffocation in Chaman

QUETTA: A senior police officer died of gas suffocation in the border town of Chaman on Thursday.

Officials said Station House Officer (SHO) Asad Khosti of Chaman Police Station went to sleep at his home without switching off the gas heater due to the severe cold. He was found unconscious in his bedroom the following morning, they said, adding that the SHO was immediately taken to the district hospital for treatment but did not survive.

Inspector Asad Khosti was a resident of Zhob district.