Bhubaneswar, March 18 -- Exposure to mosquito repellent smoke can be dangerous as a youth died reportedly due to suffocation caused by fumes from an anti-mosquito coil inside a vehicle here in the city.

The deceased youth has been identified as Ajit Kumar Das alias Guga (34), a resident of Athantar village in Balipatna area in Khordha district.

The incident occurred at the Unit-4 Market in Bhubaneswar.

According to reports, Ajit had been to Unit-4 Market in the wee hours of Sunday in his mini truck to load the vehicle with fish from the market. He reached the local fish market at around 1 am. As fish traders' vehicles had not arrived at the market by that time, he slept inside the vehicle using a mosquito repellent coil for protection ...