Bhadrak: Four children became critically ill after consuming pesticide in a farm field in Odisha’s Bhadrak district on Thursday.
According to sources, the incident occurred while the four children in the age group of one and a half years to 3 years were playing in a farmland in Jhinkiria village under Tihidi block of the district in the morning. They came across a pesticide bottle lying there and all of them drank from the bottle.
After some time, some villagers found them lying unconscious in the field and informed their parents. Two of the children are brother and sister.
The villagers rushed the unconscious children to government hospital at Tihidi. Later, they were shifted to the district headquarters hospital (DHH) at Bhadrak.
The doctors of the DHH said the children were still unconscious and under observation. If their condition does not improve, they would be referred to SCB Medical College and Hospital at Cuttack, they added.
