Representative image showing a dead body.
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New Tehri (U'khand): A four-year-old girl suffocated from the fumes of a charcoal brazier in the CISF colony of the Koti Colony area here, while her mother was sent into a critical state, police said on Sunday.
The incident came to light around 10 am Saturday, when the neighbours found that the door of the house of Ganesh Palve, a constable in the CISF, was still bolted.
No one from the family answered calls.
Sensing something was amiss, the neighbours informed the police.
A police team broke open the house door to find Palve's 37-year-old wife, Monica, and their four-year-old daughter, Arya, lying unconscious on a bed.
They were rushed to the district hospital, where doctors declared Arya dead.
Monica was referred to AIIMS Rishikesh in a critical condition.
Palve, a resident of Ahmednagar, Maharashtra, was away in Dehradun for some health treatment at the time of the incident, the police said.
A charcoal brazier in the room suggested that the girl asphyxiated by its smoke, they said. A post-mortem report is awaited.