3 Nepali hotel workers suffocate to death in Somnath, 4 hospitalized

Somnath: Three Nepali nationals working in a hotel in this pilgrimage town in Gir-somnath district of Gujarat suffocated to death while four of their aides were hospitalized today, police said.

The seven Nepalese workers of Hotel Sukh-Sagar situated near local safari park close to Somnath bypass road had kept burning coal inside their room on the roof top of the hotel building to ward off cold. The coal soaked the oxygen in the room locked from inside and converted it in to deadly carbon mono-oxide owing to which three of them identified as Billu Viz (24), Narendra Sota (31) and Mansing Sota (32) suffocated to death in their sleep while four others were found unconscious when the door was broke open today, PI of Prabhas Patan Rakesh Thakar said today.

They all lived here for different period of time and were from different parts of Nepal, he said adding that the conditions of the four admitted in hospital here was improving.

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