Cylinder leak: 13-year-old suffocates to death, 5-year-old brother in hospital
TNN | Mar 9, 2019, 07:27 IST
Sameer and his brother fell unconscious. The former didn’t surviveBENGALURU: A 13-year- old boy suffocated to de ath after a cooking gas cylinder developed a leak in his east Bengaluru house, which was locked from outside by his mother on Friday morning. The boy's five-year-old brother fell unconscious and is now recovering in a hospital.
Kalpana alias Kalavati, a widow from Nepal who works as a domestic help and lives in a shantytown in Jyothinagar near HAL, told police she would lock her two sons, Sameer and Shasheer, in the house before leaving for work at 6am as that was the only way she could keep them safe. Kalpana would return home by 8am to send her sons to school before heading back to work.
On Friday morning, neighbours heard Kalpana screaming for help. "When we ran inside the house, we saw Kalpana crying sitting next to her sons. Sameer lay motionless, while Shasheer was breathing hard. We immediately summoned an ambulance. The ambulance staff declared Sameer dead. We shifted them to a nearby private hospital where doctors confirmed the death," said neighbours.
While Sameer was a class 5 student at a government school in Narayanapura, Shasheer is in class 1, police said.
Shasheer has been admitted to St John's Hospital.
Kalpana moved to the city in 2016, police said. Around 20 families from Nepal live in Jyothinagar and Kalpana's is among them. "Preliminary investigation revealed Kalpana had turned off the cylinder knob. The gas somehow leaked and the two boys who were sleeping just 10 feet away fell unconscious. The mother returned around 8am and found one of them dead," a police officer said.
Police have booked a case under IPC 304A (death due to negligence) against officials of the private gas agency which had supplied the cylinder.
Kalpana alias Kalavati, a widow from Nepal who works as a domestic help and lives in a shantytown in Jyothinagar near HAL, told police she would lock her two sons, Sameer and Shasheer, in the house before leaving for work at 6am as that was the only way she could keep them safe. Kalpana would return home by 8am to send her sons to school before heading back to work.
On Friday morning, neighbours heard Kalpana screaming for help. "When we ran inside the house, we saw Kalpana crying sitting next to her sons. Sameer lay motionless, while Shasheer was breathing hard. We immediately summoned an ambulance. The ambulance staff declared Sameer dead. We shifted them to a nearby private hospital where doctors confirmed the death," said neighbours.
While Sameer was a class 5 student at a government school in Narayanapura, Shasheer is in class 1, police said.
Shasheer has been admitted to St John's Hospital.
Kalpana moved to the city in 2016, police said. Around 20 families from Nepal live in Jyothinagar and Kalpana's is among them. "Preliminary investigation revealed Kalpana had turned off the cylinder knob. The gas somehow leaked and the two boys who were sleeping just 10 feet away fell unconscious. The mother returned around 8am and found one of them dead," a police officer said.
Police have booked a case under IPC 304A (death due to negligence) against officials of the private gas agency which had supplied the cylinder.
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