Special teams reach Jammu to assist in probe over 7 mysterious deaths in Rajouri
JAMMU: Special teams of experts from three premier health institutions have reached here from different parts of the country to help in the ongoing investigations into the recent death of seven persons belonging to two families in a remote village in Jammu and Kashmir’s Rajouri district, a senior doctor said on Saturday.
Seven persons — a man and his four children, and two other siblings of another couple — died in Badhaal village in Kotranka in two separate incidents on December 8 and 12 with the officials suspecting food poisoning as the cause of their mysterious death.
“Our preliminary investigation points to viral infection but more work needs to be done to reach the conclusion (on the cause of the deaths). Team of experts from the National Institute of Virology, Pune, PGI Chandigarh and National Centre for Disease Control (NCDC), Delhi, have arrived here to assist in the investigations,” Government Medical College (GMC) Principal Dr Ashutosh Gupta told reporters here.
