Excessive smoke from mosquito coil kills teenager
Dhaka: A teenager was suffocated to death and his father fell ill due to excessive smoke emanating from a mosquito coil in a house of Kuril Biswa Road in the city on Sunday afternoon.
Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) police camp sub-inspector Bachhu Miah said Nayan, 16, and his father Shajahan Mia, 50, were sleeping in their room in a tin-shed house near Kuril Biswa road fly over on Sunday afternoon.
They fell sick due to smoke of the mosquito coil at at about 3:00pm. They were rushed to the DMCH where Nayan was pronounced dead at at about 4:30pm, SI Bachhu said.
The body was sent to the DMCH morgue.