Summary The incident took place in Killi Karbala in Pishin district.
QUETTA (Web Desk / AFP) - At least nine people, all women and children, died after inhaling noxious fumes from an electricity generator outside their house in south-west Pakistan on Thursday, officials said.
The incident happened in Killi Karbala village in Pishin district, 70km north of Quetta, the capital of oil and gas rich Balochistan province, which borders Iran and Afghanistan.
"These people were asleep in the same room and inhaled poisonous gases emitted by an electricity generator installed outside their room," senior local administration official Bashir Ahmad Bazai told AFP.
He said the nine - three women and six children - were found dead on Thursday morning.
