Indore, May 13 (PTI) A probe has been launched after two sisters aged eight and six died under suspicious circumstances in a span of three days in Madhya Pradesh’s Indore district, an official said on Wednesday.
Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Dr Madhav Hasani told reporters that a six-year-old girl died in Depalpur town, about 40 km from here, on the intervening night of May 9 and 10.
The girl was vomiting but the family did not consult a doctor, he said.
Her eight-year-old sister died while undergoing treatment at a hospital on May 11, the CHMO said.
The postmortem examination of the eight-year-old deceased girl was conducted, and the viscera was sent for examination, said Dr Hasani.
“Until the postmortem and viscera reports are received, it would not be appropriate to draw any conclusions regarding the cause of death,” he said.
The girls’ mother and another sister are also ill and have been admitted to a government hospital.
The CMHO said that a health department team surveyed some 200 houses in the neighbourhood but no one showed symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhoea or fever.
But there was a lot of filth around the girls’ house and he had instructed local officials to clean it up, the official said.
Notably, the Municipal Corporation of Indore, the country’s cleanest city, has adopted the town of Depalpur to improve its sanitation. PTI HWP MAS KRK
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