Agartala Nov 29 (IANS) A woman and her son died and four others of the same family fell ill after eating fish in Tripura an official said here on Wednesday.
Sobhona Biswas 65 and her son Manik Biswas 40 died at Mohanpur in western Tripura on Tuesday night an official from the Mohanpur Sub-Divisional Magistrate s office said.
They felt pain in their stomach and started vomiting after they ate the fish and later died the official said.
The four sick persons including two women are being treated at a hospital.
Quoting doctors the official said that Manik Biswas caught the fish from a rivulet in the village and the fish might have been poisonous.
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