A child born after 10 years of fervent prayers and vows died within days due to water contamination that has claimed several lives in Madhya Pradesh's Indore city.
An eerie silence prevailed in an alley in the Marathi Mohalla of the Bhagirathpura area, where six-month-old Avyan Sahu lived with his family. A simple act of diluting packaged milk with water cost the baby his life and plunged the Sahu family into unbearable grief.
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The family claims it has rejected the government's compensation for the death of the child, who was born after 10 years of prayers and vows. The government has announced an ex gratia of ₹2 lakh each to the families of the deceased persons.
Residents have claimed that 15 people died due to the vomiting-diarrhoea outbreak caused by contaminated drinking water in Bhagirathpura over the last year, with Avyan being the youngest among them. The health department, however, has not confirmed this claim and said only four deaths occurred in the outbreak.
