Excessive smoke from mosquito coil kills teenager

Dhaka –  A teenager was suffocated to death and his father fell ill due to excessive smoke emanating from a mosquito coil in a house of Kuril Biswa Road in the city on Sunday afternoon.Sub-Inspector Bachhu Miah of Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH) police camp said Nayan, 16, and his father Shajahan Mia, 50, were sleeping in their room in a tin-shed house near Kuril Biswa road fly over on Sunday afternoon.They fell sick due to smoke of the mosquito coil at around 3 pm. They were rushed to the DMCH where Nayan was pronounced dead at around  4:30 pm, SI Bachhu said.The body was sent to the DMCH morgue.UNB agency