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Five people fell ill after consuming ‘poisonous’ tea

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Srinagar: Five persons including husband-wife duo and their son were admitted in a hospital in serious conditions after they consumed some poisonous substance mixed inadvertently with tea in Kunzer area of north Kashmir’s Tangmarg area.
Reports said that the five persons consumed the tea prepared by an elderly woman who mistook the poisonous substance for tea leaves and prepared the tae for the inmates and some neighbours who had come to pay a visit to their house.
As soon as the members consumed the tea, three among them and two neighbors fell unconscious who were immediately shifted to SDH Magam.
Later they were shifted to Srinagar hospital where condition of three of them is stated to be critical.
While confirming the incident, a police official said that as per initial reports the elderly woman while preparing the tea had mistook some poisonous as tea leaves and prepared tea for the family.
The officer identified those admitted in the hospital as Abdul Gani Sofi, his wife Saja and their son Farooq Ahmad Sofi, Ghulam Qadir Waza son of Ghulam Mohammad Waza and Ghulam Mohammad Wani, all residents of Itkoo Dobiwan. (with inputs from GNS)


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