Gas leak leads to death of Ahmedabad police officer’s wife

Prabhulata Parmar, 52, wife of a police officer, died of suffocation on Saturday morning in a city hospital. A fire broke out in her house at officer’s quarters in Shahibaug following a gas leak and she got suffocated when trying to fix the leak by herself, police sources said.

A case of accidental death was lodged at Madhavpura police station.

According to the police, a fire broke out in the house opposite police headquarters in Shahibaug at 11:30 am. Police said that Prabhulata informed her husband, deputy superintendent of police (DySP) ND Parmar, on phone about the gas leak from an LPG cylinder in her kitchen.

“Her husband told her to get out of the house immediately and so she and her son left the house. But she returned to the house alone, thinking she would fix the leakage, but got suffocated by the dense smoke caused by the fire,” said Madhavpura police inspector SG Parmar.

Parmar said that when Prabhulata entered the house, the fridge and sofa were already on fire and it was spreading rapidly. There were a couple of blasts in the kitchen due to the gas leak. Parmar said that she was rescued from the fire but had already inhaled a lot of carbon monoxide which probably caused her death.

Prabhulata was rushed to Rajasthan Hospital where she was died during treatment. Police informed her husband who is a currently posted in the state intelligence bureau. Meanwhile, fire officials said that it took nearly an hour to control the fire.