BHAKTAPUR, JANUARY 23

A three-month-old child has suffocated to death in a rented apartment at Dadhikot in Suryabinayak Municipality, Bhaktapur.

Two others were seriously affected. "The minor, son of Abhishek Ramtel, originally from Manthali Municipality in Ramechhap district, who had rented an apartment at the house of Bhawana Thapa in the municipality, was found dead this morning," said Deputy Superintendent of Police Narahari Regmi.

"Abhishek and his spouse, Pasuna Tamang had gone to bed along with their child after having dinner, leaving the coal they burnt for warming," said Regmi. "The child may have suffocated to death as the rented room did not have ventilators for oxygen to pass in," he said. The child died at Madhyapur Hospital while the injured couple admitted to the hospital are said to be in serious condition.

Locals and police broke the door of the house to get inside the room and found three of them unconscious.

A version of this article appears in the print on January 24, 2022, of The Himalayan Times.