Spectre of death stalks villages in Odisha’s Keonjhar district
The Hindu
Lives are lost near one of the State’s richest iron ore reserves to poverty, poor nutrition and pollution
Over the past few months, Sukurmani Munda, a 31-year-old tribal woman in Rugudisahi, a dusty hamlet by Keonjhar’s Gandhamardan mines, one of the biggest iron ore mines in Odisha, has been suffering from persistent cough and bouts of fever.
A few houses away, Raibari Munda (25), too, showed similar symptoms and lost weight rapidly before she passed away a week ago.
Tala Munda, a 46-year-old neighbour of Raibari, also died a couple of months ago after being “reduced to a pack of bones”.
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