2 dead, five of family fall ill consuming mushroom
Aizawl: Two persons, a woman and a ten-year-old boy died after eating mushroom in south Mizoram’s remote Sentetfiang hamlet, Chief Medical Officer (CMO) of Lawngtlai district Dr HC Thangkima on Monday said.
The ten-year-old boy Roneihmawia , studying in class six, and his five family members ate three different kinds of mushroom cooked in one utensil at a dinner on Thursday, Dr Thangkima told PTI over the phone.
All the family members vomited and had severe stomach pain and Roneihmawia, the most serious one was taken to nearby Sangau Primary Health Centre, where he died on Saturday evening, he said. Another Renthluaii, a neighbour, who visited the family over dinner and tasted the mushroom died today at around noon.
The condition of Roneihmawia’s father LH Malsawma was also stated to be serious but no other persons were admitted at the Sangau PHC due to the absence of the doctor there. The doctor posted at the Sangau PHC recently joined as the Medical Officer and went back to Aizawl due to his marriage ceremony held on June 21, Dr Thangkima said.
“The doctor is rushed back to Sangau,” he said. A team of doctors was sent to Sentetfiang, relocated at the foothills of Phawngpui of the Blue Mountain, the highest mountain in Mizoram as it was inside the Phawngpui National Park, Dr Thangkima added. Incidentally, in Mizoram, till date five people have died this monsoon due to consumption of wild mushroom. (PTI)
Tripura kidnappers demandRs 10 lakh ransom
Aizawl: Suspected National Liberation Front of Tripura militant have demanded Rs 10 lakh for the release of two Bengali businessmen who they had kidnapped from Mizoram on June 14.
Mizoram police said the kidnappers made the ransom demand to the families of their hostages in Tripura.
Mizoram police have filed an FIR at West Phaileng police station in western Mizoram’s Mamit district against the abduction that took place between Rajiv Nagar and New Kawnpui near the Bangladesh border.
“The families of the kidnapped persons have not talked to the Mizoram police. But we are keeping in touch with the Tripura police,” police sources said.
Mizoram police said that the kidnappers were the same militants who had carried out a number of kidnaping in Mizoram, including that of Deep Mandal and two Mizo drivers on November 23 last year.
The kidnappers, said to be about 10 men armed with at least four AK-47 assault rifles and three knives, waylaid a pick-up truck with six people on board on the outskirts of Rajiv Nagar in Mizoram’s Chakma dominated area. One of the passengers was able to escape immediately while the remaining five were taken captive.
Two more escaped within the next few hours but three people – two of them said to be Bengali and the third a Chakma – remain in the kidnappers’ hands and are suspected to be in the jungles of eastern Bangladesh (the crime scene is just a few kilometers from the Mizoram-Tripura-Bangladesh tri-junction).(UNI)
UPLA militant, cop killed
Diphu (Assam): A top UPLA militant leader and a police constable were killed in an encounter at Hanse Basti in Diphu area of Karbi Anglong district on Monday. The United Peoples Liberation Army (ULPA)’s Diphu ‘Area Commander’ Rajib Ingleng was killed and constable Gautam Kuch seriously injured in an encounter with police in the wee hours, Superintendent of Police Mukdha Jyoti Mahanta said. While the militant was killed on the spot, the constable succumbed to his wounds in Diphu Civil Hospital, he said. An AK-47 assault rifle and some ammunition were recovered from the rebel, he said. The UPLA had on June 5 killed Nitya Nanda Goswami, SP of Hamren police district along with his personal security officer during a police operation against the insurgent outfit. (PTI)