Sana'a: A family of eight in Yemen suffocated to death after inhaling fumes from a burning kerosene lamp while they were sleeping, the Yemen Ministry of Interior said on Wednesday.
The family, which lived in the Shoub area in Sana'a, apparently lit the lamp and slept in a tightly-locked room.
Colonel Abdul Aziz Al Samat, Shoub's security chief, said that inhalation of the fumes killed the 45-year-old father, his two wives, their son and four daughters.
Al Samat said that the family died on Sunday night and were found dead the next day after neighbours noticed that none of the family members left the house.
The neighbours alerted poilce, who who broke into the house and found the family dead in a room filled with smoke.
Last year, 13 members of a family in Sana'a were killed after inhaling fumes from a generator. People in the capital resort to using power generators and traditional ways of lighting due to constant power outages.
The country's biggest electricity grids in the restive province of Mareb, which supply the capital with electricity, have become susceptible to frequent attacks by tribesmen.
Deadly flashfloods
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Interior said that heavy rains and flash floods across the country have claimed the lives of six people, most of children.
The floods washed out two children and a third was rescued in the northern province of Sa'ada. Two other people died when a thunderstorm hit their houses.
