A person died and four others fell critically ill when they consumed poisonous mushrooms at Hiraloi village under the Kisinda police station in Sambalpur district on Sunday.
Reports said 70-year-old Ramesh Lugun had gone to a forest to graze his goats on Saturday and brought mushrooms while returning. After the mushrooms were cooked, Ramesh’s family offered some to a neighbouring house.
After eating the mushroom, Ramesh and his wife Anjali and two kids of the neighbouring house, Aman (9) and Siman (7) complained of diarrhoea and fever.
Locals immediately admitted all of them to a hospital in Kisinda and later shifted them to the District Headquarters Hospital (DHH) here. While Ramesh died undergoing treatment, his wife was again shifted to Burla hospital. Mother of the two kids Bartia Barla (30) was kept under observation since she was feeling unwell.
Later, police reached the spot and began an inquiry.