Overview
- Police and rescue officials discovered three women dead and a man unconscious inside a Gulshan-e-Iqbal Block 1 residence on Sunday.
- Initial observations by police point to suffocation from a suspected gas leak inside the apartment.
- The deceased were related as a mother, her daughter and a daughter-in-law, and the unconscious man was moved to hospital in critical condition.
- Sindh Home Minister Zia Lanjar ordered a transparent inquiry led by the SSP East, with forensic examinations part of the probe.
- Investigators await autopsy findings and are assessing other possibilities reported by local media, including differing times of death and toxic ingestion, against a backdrop of recent gas-related incidents in Karachi.