Four members of a Nepalese family have died of suffocation from the fire they burnt to keep their house warm, just two days after a father and son had died in a similar way.
As per a preliminary investigation they died of asphyxiation, police said today.
The victims died of suffocation due to smoke from the fire they burnt to keep the house warm in Pokhara Municipality, they said.
The deceased have been identified as the owner of the house Sita Rana, 36, her 11-year-old son, 56-year-old mother and 28-year-old niece.
Just two days earlier, a father and son had died of suffocation in their own house while heating their room with firewood to escape cold in neighbouring Lekhanath Municipality.
