Mirzapuram, April 27: Two children and a teenager died after consuming food at a shack in Mirzapuram in Nuzvid mandal, Krishna district on Tuesday morning. Eight others were hospitalised.
Vissanapalli Geetika (2), Songa Sravanti (6), Kasinikarla Varalakshmi (18) had had food at an eatery run by J Nagamani, wife of a lorry driver, in the Dalit locality of the village. Officials suspect that the puri and curry served at the shack were contaminated. Some 20, who consumed the food, including Nagamani’s son-in-law and his daughter Sravanti, began vomiting.
Sravanthi died while being rushed to a hospital while the two-year-old baby Geetika died at a private hospital in Eluru. Varalakshmi too was shifted to Eluru but died at the government hospital there. Among those hospitalised, the condition of one is said to be critical.
Nuzvid CI T Seetaramanjaneyulu said cases under Sections 260, 270,304A, 307, 337 of the IPC, Food Adulteration Act and Section 59 and 65 of the Food Safety and Standards Act have been booked against the owner of the shack. The food and materials used in their preparation have been sent to a forensic science laboratory in Hyderabad for tests. Owner of the shack Nagamani has been taken to the Nuzvid police station.
Meanwhile, tension prevailed in Mirzapuram as irate villagers blocked traffic on the Nuzvid-Hanuman Junction in protest against the District Collector’s failure to visit the dalitwada.
–Agencies