Mysterious deaths in J&Ok: Centre’s group reaches Rajouri; loss of life toll rises to 17
Jammu, A high-level inter-ministerial group Sunday reached Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district the place a mysterious sickness is wreaking havoc, killing one other particular person on Sunday and taking the loss of life toll to 17.
Union House Minister Amit Shah had on Saturday ordered the structure of an inter-ministerial group to establish the causes of deaths that occurred inside weeks in three households linked to one another within the distant Badhaal village.
Yasmeen Kousar, the final of the six kids of Mohd Aslam present process remedy at SMGS hospital in Jammu, died this night, officers stated.
Kousar’s 5 siblings and grandparents died final week. 9 different members of two households had died within the village between December 7 and 12.
“J&Ok well being division and different departments probed the deaths however the precise trigger has not be discovered but. The House Minister has constituted a group of inter-ministerial consultants they usually have reached right here,” Lt Governor Manoj Sinha advised reporters on the sidelines of a operate right here.
He stated police have arrange a particular investigation group to probe the occasions from different angles. “We’ll temporary you as soon as the fact involves the fore,” Sinha stated.
Officers stated the 16-member group arrived at Rajouri district headquarters this night and is more likely to go to the mountain village, 55km from the city, on Monday.
The central group will work in collaboration with the native administration to supply instant aid to the victims.
Consultants from a number of the most respected establishments within the nation have been roped in to grasp the causes of the deaths.
The sufferers complained of fever, ache, nausea and lack of consciousness earlier than dying inside days of their admission to hospitals.
Earlier, a Jammu and Kashmir authorities spokesperson stated investigations and samples empirically indicated that the incidents weren’t resulting from a communicable illness of bacterial or viral origin and that there is no such thing as a public well being angle.
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