At least two people have died and two others critically ill from food poisoning at Tiwaridih village under Dewari police station in Giridih district here on Thursday.
Officer in-charge of Dewari police station, Ajay Sahu confirmed the deaths of Mukesh Thakur, son of Sarju Thakur and Rakesh Ram, son of Baldeo Ram. While two others — Raju Das and Ravi Yadav became critically ill after consuming the meal in the night at their house, who have been rushed to the Giridih hospital Reports said that all four victims were doing painting work at the house of one Abhimanu Tiwari at Tiwaridih village under Dewari police station since two months.
On Wednesday night, after having finished their work all fours persons had their meal. However, they started complaining one after another about pain in stomach and started vomiting suspected to be from food poison. Their condition became worse late in the night and two of them including Mukesh Thakur and Rakesh Ram died and two others were sent to Giridih Sadar hospital for treatment. Villagers complained that police and local administration officials reached the village late through they have received the information on time. The police have picked up one Abhimanu Tiwari for further interrogation, while the condition of two others ill persons were said to be critical.
local mukhiya Ramnarayan Das and BJP leader Kameshwar Paswam have visited the place after the tragedy. Police have recovered two bodied and sent its for postmortem.