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Disease outbreak in jail

Disease outbreak in jail

By HNS

BIRATNAGAR:

Two sick jail inmates died in the Biratnagar jail in a week. Prisoner Raju Thapa Magar died on Wednesday while undergoing treatment in Koshi Zonal Hospital and another Sitaram Bohara died last Thursday, senior assistant health workers at the jail, Badri Narayan Thakur said. Both of them had swelling in their body parts, Thakur said, adding that Magar had mental problem, while Bohara was a tuberculosis patient.