BENGALURU: A 35-year-old woman and her seven-year-old daughter were found dead in the bathroom of their house in
Ganapatinagar
near Chikkabanavara, north Bengaluru on Saturday.
Police suspect
Mangala
, 35, and
Gowtami N
, a class 1 student of a private school, died of suffocation caused by carbon monoxide leakage from the geyser.
The incident came to light at 4pm, after Mangala’s husband
Narasimhamurthy
requested his landlord to check what had happened to his wife as she was not answering his calls since afternoon.
Narasimhamurthy works with a fabrication firm and lived in a leased house at Ganapatinagar with his wife and daughter. He had left home in the morning for work and called his wife around 1pm. She did not pick his call and later, he tried to contact her by calling multiple times. That’s when he suspected something was amiss and alerted his landlord.
The landlord found the door was locked from inside and managed to open it through a window. He found the washroom was closed and knocked repeatedly. He informed Narasimhamurthy and police about it.
Soladevanahalli police rushed to the spot and broke open the door. Both Mangala and Gowthami were found dead inside.
“We suspect the incident took place at 11am when the duo went for a bath. They fell unconscious and breathed their last. They had closed the windows while taking bath. We suspect the duo suffocated to death after inhaling carbon monoxide that leaked from the substandard gas geyser in the bathroom,” an officer said.
Police have taken up a case of unnatural death. “We are waiting for the autopsy report to know the exact reason,” an officer said.