US EditionContaminated water kills 9 and hospitalises more than 200 in India's Indore city
A pipeline leak in Bhagirathpura caused sewage contamination of drinking water, resulting in at least nine deaths and over 200 hospitalizations, officials and a lawmaker confirmed.
- A senior official said on Saturday six people have died and more than 200 were hospitalised in Indore city due to contaminated water, with 203 patients treated in 41 hospitals.
- Investigators suspect the Bhagirathpura police chowki, built over an affected main water pipeline with a septic-lacking bathroom, caused contamination; municipal authorities have begun heavy-metal tests and seek deeper investigation.
- Officials are testing water tankers for chlorine and bacteria while teams of sub-engineers, area engineers and Sub-Divisional Magistrate staff map vulnerable pipelines and descend into sewerage access chambers .
- Chief Minister Mohan Yadav ordered the transfer of Indore municipal commissioner Dilip Kumar Yadav and suspended two senior officials, while the Indore bench of the Madhya Pradesh High Court ordered water tankers and the corporation added 4 tankers to bolster 30 already dispatched.
- The government told the High Court the outbreak is under effective control with continuous monitoring, police took 40-45 persons into preventive custody, and Bhagirathpura residents demanded Rs 1 crore compensation per victim.
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In India, several people, including children, died after using contaminated tap water. According to the Indian press, up to fifteen deaths and nearly 2,500 sick people were recorded in a district of Indore, a large industrial city with more than two million inhabitants in the centre of the country.
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Contaminated water kills 9 and hospitalises 200 in India's Indore city
At least nine people have died and more than 200 have been hospitalised in the central Indian city of Indore after a diarrhoea outbreak that officials said was linked to contaminated drinking water, according to a lawmaker and local health authorities.
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