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Four tribals die after eating mango kernel in Orissa | | Four tribesmen died in Koraput district of Orissa after they were forced to eat a soup made of mango kernel recently. Preliminary medical reports said the soup
was bacteria-infected and the tribals, who belong to Narayanpatna block, died
of food poisoning. "My wife and two of my grand daughters died. They consumed
mango kernel and wild leaves, as we didn't have anything else to eat. Most of
the times we consume this because we do not have rice at our homes," said Balsi
Suika, relative of the dead. However, Surya Narayan Patra, the state revenue minister
said that the tribals were provided with rice, but they often keep it for a number
of days, leading to food poisoning. "The habit of tribals is to keep cooked rice
for four to five days which actually gets spoilt. In recent cases the reports
from doctors confirm that they kept the food for a longer period of time. We have
directed the extension officer and the collector to propagate them about it in
those areas," said Patra.
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