At least four persons were asphyxiated to death at a house in the Bashirabad area of Peshwar between Saturday and Sunday night.
The victims were identified as Shamsher, 53, his son Iqrar, 12 and two other unidentified guests. Police said a generator-induced poisonous gas filled the house where the victims were sleeping and they were found dead in the morning.
Police shifted the bodies to a hospital for medico-legal formalities. Local police said that the deaths occurred due to suffocation.