A newly-married couple died due to suffocation in Dandar area of Parachinar, Kurram Agency on Sunday.

The local officials said that Engineer Hanain Mumtaz and his wife lecturer Raheeda were sleeping in a room of their house where they kept the gas stove on for heating. As a result, both of them suffocated in the night sometime.

The victims were shifted to a hospital, where the doctors pronounced them dead. Later, their bodies were shifted to their native village Boraki and buried in ancestral graveyard.