New Delhi, March 16 A two-and-a-half-year-old girl died while her older sister fell unconscious due to suspected LPG gas poisoning after a cylinder kept in their flat leaked in east Delhi's Ghazipur area, police said on Monday.
They said a board of doctors had been constituted to conduct the postmortem to rule out any other possibility in the case, though the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) has confirmed that the death occurred due to poisoning caused by LPG gas.
According to experts, LPG is heavier than oxygen and tends to settle near the ground, which can severely affect children. The impact can be more severe on young children because their lungs are delicate and more vulnerable to toxic exposure, they said.
The deceased girl's third birthday was just two months away. Her father, Mohammad Rahid, a tailor by profession, had already started preparing a dress for the occasion, according to family members.
"He was very happy that his daughter would turn three years old on May 5. He was also preparing a dress for her to gift her on her third birthday. Everything suddenly turned into a tragedy," Mohammad Mohsin, a family friend, told