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Three die of water-borne disease

— PHOTO: G. KARTHIKEYAN

SHOW OF IRE:Residents blocking the National Highway at Vedasandur in Dindigul district on Thursday.

VEDASANDUR (DINDIGUL): Three persons, including two women, are suspected to have died of a water-borne disease at Athupatti near here in the early hours of Thursday.

The deceased were Thamizhsevi, noon-meal worker, Muniammal and Raja Perumal, both farmers, residing at Athupatti village. All the three were neighbours living in a residential colony.

Local people said that Muniammal and Thamizhselvi had been suffering from diarrhoea. They were rushed to the Government Hospital in Dindigul for treatment. Muniammal died on way to hospital and Thamizhselvi also died later. Her relatives brought back the bodies to the village.

Another neighbour, Raja Perumal, who was admitted to the Dindigul GH with similar symptoms, also died in the early hours of Thursday.

A group of local people picketed the Vedasandur-Dindigul National Highway condemning the “inordinate delay” in sending a medical team to the village. Traffic was disrupted for more than one and a half hours. Later, police, health and revenue officials rushed to the spot and pacified the crowd.

Meanwhile, a team of doctors from Thadikombu Primary Health Centre and Vedasandur GH visited the village and diagnosed the health condition of the people.

Preventive medicines were also distributed to them. The doctors suspected that water contamination could be the reason for the deaths.

Though the villagers claimed that the deceased had cholera, the exact cause would be known only on receipt of results of laboratory tests.

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