SHILLONG: Police are waiting for the FSL report to confirm the nature of poison in the bodies of 14 workers which led to their death at Saipung on April 5.
A police source said on Tuesday that though the postmortem report had mentioned that the death of the workers due to food poisoning, whether the poison spread from the consumption of the wild fruit, rice, or water can be confirmed only by the FSL report which is still pending .
“The preliminary probe reports and post mortem report indicate food poisoning as the cause of death of 14 labourers, but the reports have not made it clear whether poison was from the wild fruit, or any other edible.
Police had sent the viscera and the wild fruit among others for forensic examination to Shillong FSL.
