MARDAN - As many as five people including two real brothers died due to suffocation at a wedding hall in the limits of Sheikh Maltoon Town police station, police said Sunday.
According to the area police, Abdur Rehman, Ameen Khan, Sherzadad, Noorzada, Malang Saeed and Yousaf Khan Dir district and were employees at Toru Shadi Hall located at Mardan-Nowshera Road.
The police said that Saturday midnight they burnt fire in their room to keep them war in the biting chill and slept.
At night due to absence of oxygen in the room, Abdur Rehman, Ameen Khan, Sherzada, Noorzada and Malang Saeed died due to suffocation while Yousaf Khan became unconscious. The police said that next day when other employees of the centre came to the wedding hall they found them dead. They later shifted the dead bodies and unconscious person to Mardan Medical Complex.