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Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Jan 20: A high level inter-ministerial team today visited Badhaal village in Rajouri district to ascertain the cause of death of 17 members of three families under mysterious circumstances.
The Central team headed by a GK Garg, director in the Ministry of Home Affairs reached Rajouri district headquarters on Sunday evening and received a briefing from senior district, health and police officers.
The officials said the team, accompanied by dozens of senior officers of various departments, reached Badhaal around 11.30 am and visited the bereaved families even as grave diggers were preparing the last resting place of Yasmeen Kousar (15), the sixth child of Mohd Aslam who breathed her last at the SMGS hospital in Jammu on Sunday evening.
They said the body of the girl was buried in the newly set up graveyard adjacent to her five siblings and grandparents who died over the past week.
Experts from some of the most reputable institutions in the country have been arranged to manage the situation and understand the causes of the deaths.
Authorities have recently sealed a spring in the village after its water has been tested positive for some pesticides/ insecticides.
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