After 14-year-old succumbs to fever in Bareilly, death toll climbs to 35

Bareilly | Sunday | 9th September, 2018

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Bareilly: After a 14-year-old boy in Barinagla village under Kyara block died due to fever on Saturday night, the death toll in the district climbed to 35. After receiving the information, the health department organised a camp in the village on Sunday and ordered verbal autopsy of the case. Meanwhile, a health department team from Lucknow arrived in Bareilly during the day.Poonam Devi, Barinagla village head, said, “Sonu (14), son of Ram Avatar, died due to fever on Saturday night. I had informed chief minister Yogi Adityanath and health minister Sidharth Nath Singh about the deaths and the government has sent a team from Lucknow to check patients.” His sister Rohini had died of fever on Thursday..