Kurdistan
Family members have gathered at the Sulaimani morgue after the death of two due to a gas leak at a resort village east of Sulaimani city. Photo: Rudaw/screengrab
ERBIL, Kurdistan Region - Two people from Baghdad have died after a gas leak at a resort village east of Sulaimani city, police confirmed.
The victims, identified as Mohammad Mahmood and Radha Musa, had traveled to Sulaimani on Tuesday to purchase a villa and a garden in the resort village of Mergapan. On their first night at the property, they died after inhaling gas that leaked from a heater while they were asleep.
After losing contact with the pair for three days, their families traveled to Sulaimani to check on their whereabouts. With the assistance of local police, the victims were found dead inside the villa on Saturday morning.
“The two individuals were staying in their villa when they suffocated due to gas emitted from a heater,” Ari Lateef, spokesperson for the Sulaimani Police, told Rudaw.
The bodies were transferred to the Sulaimani morgue, and authorities have launched an investigation into the incident.
Mohammed Shakir, a cousin of Musa, also confirmed that the cause of death was suffocation.
“They died in their sleep due to a gas leak,” he told Rudaw.
Gas-related incidents are common during the winter months in the Kurdistan Region. Many households rely on gas heaters because of the absence of central heating systems and ongoing electricity shortages.
In December 2022, an elderly couple in Erbil’s Khalifan district died after inhaling gas from a heater. A month earlier, a gas explosion in a crowded house in Sulaimani’s Kaziwa neighborhood caused the building to collapse, killing 15 people.
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