Wild mushroom claims one in Jaintia Hills

JOWAI: One Damon Suchiang, a resident of Saphai village in West Jaintia Hills, died of poisoning on Sunday after consuming wild mushroom recently.
Sources informed that Suchiang had gone to NEIGRIHMS, Shillong, to attend to two persons who complained of illness after eating the wild mushroom along with him.
However, the poison from the mushroom slowly showed its effect and Suchiang died on Sunday at NEIGRIHMS.