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| Teenager Dies in India After Eating |
| Teenager Dies in India After Eating Toxic Fruit
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| INDIA
, 8-May-2015
7:38:3 AM |
| One teenage athlete was dead and three other young women were in critical condition in the southern Indian state of Kerala on Thursday after they consumed highly toxic fruit from what is widely known as a suicide tree.
It was unclear what motivated the four, all young women, but an official in the Alappuzha district, a police official and a relative of the dead teenager each said the youths had been fighting with older residents at the government-run athletic center in the district where they lived. They fell ill while having dinner Wednesday and were rushed to the hospital by other athletes and the warden of their dormitory, said the district official, Balamurali, who goes by one name.
Aparna Ramabhadran, 17, died at the Alappuzha Medical College early Thursday of heart failure, and the three others, also 17, were in critical condition, according to Balamurali. All were rowers.
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"The biggest problem is that there is no real antidote to this poison," Injeti Srinivas, the director-general of the Sports Authority of India, the national body that runs the Special Area Games Center in Alappuzha where the teenagers trained, said at a news con Sports Authority of India ference Thursday.
"Our priority is to save the lives of the remaining three girls," he said. "This is most critical." he said.
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