JAMMU: A five-year-old girl died and her five other siblings were admitted to a hospital after they fell seriously ill in Badhaal village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district on Sunday, officials said.
Official said due to food poisoning-like symptoms, six children of a family fell seriously ill in Badhaal village and were admitted to Govt Medical College (GMC) at Rajouri, from where four of the critically sick children were referred to Jammu. One girl died during treatment and two others are under treatment, officials said.
Nine members from two different families lost their lives due to an unknown disease in December last year from this same Badhaal village of Kotranka sub-division.
The deceased child is Nadina Kousar, daughter of Mohammed Aslam, a resident of Badhaal village.
Abhishek Sharma, DCP of Rajouri, along with Tejinder Singh, DIG of Rajouri-Poonch Range, and Gaurav Sikarwar, SSP of Rajouri, visited Badhaal village to assess the ground situation.
Since December last, to check any possible outbreak of any infectious disease, several teams of various national institutions like Indian Council of Medical Research, National Center for Disease Control, PGI Chandigarh, and National Center for Virology are camping in this remote area while local authorities are actively monitoring the ground situation.
