An official was dismissed from service and two others suspended even as the death toll climbed to 10 in Indore city of Madhya Pradesh where more than 2,000 people have fallen ill after consuming contaminated water supplied by the municipal corporation, officials said on Wednesday (December 31, 2025).
The deceased include a six-month-old child, who passed away on Wednesday (December 31, 2025), and six women. More than 100 people from Indore’s Bhagirathpura area have been admitted to hospitals in the past one week after drinking water from a municipal supply line.
Five dead, over 1,000 fall ill due to contaminated water from municipal pipeline in Indore
While the authorities are yet to release the official death toll, a senior officer in the district administration said that the figure has crossed 10.
In-charge sub-engineer Shubham Shrivastava of the Public Health Engineering (PHE) Department of the Indore Municipal Corporation (IMC) was terminated while zonal officer Shaligram Sitole and assistant engineer Yogesh Joshi were suspended on the instructions of Chief Minister Mohan Yadav.
