A retrospective study of post mortem examinations conducted between years 2014–2018 at Rural Tertiary Care Hospital, Ambajogai, Dist. Beed was carried out to know the incidence of asphyxial deaths with respect to age, sex, month, diurnal variations and type of Asphyxial
death. Out of total 2168 autopsies conducted during that period, 350 deaths were asphyxial deaths, which constitute 16.14% deaths. Most commonly involved age group was 21–30 years (92 cases i.e. 26.28%), followed by 31–40 years (69 cases i.e. 19.71%). The incidence of asphyxial death was more in males than females with the ratio of 2.09:1. Maximum cases were noted in the month of January (44 cases i.e. 12.57%), followed by May (35 cases i.e. 10.00%). Maximum deaths were in the morning hours (131 cases i.e. 37.42%), followed by afternoon (113 cases i.e. 32.28%) cases. In this study, we found that among all asphyxial deaths, Hanging was most common (228 cases i.e. 65.14%) followed by drowning (89 cases i.e. 25.42%) and strangulation
(11 cases i.e. 03.14%) respectively.

Keywords: Mode of death; Asphyxia; Hanging; Drowning.