{"id":307026,"date":"2018-12-15T06:03:36","date_gmt":"2018-12-15T06:03:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=307026"},"modified":"2018-12-15T06:03:38","modified_gmt":"2018-12-15T06:03:38","slug":"karnataka-11-dead-after-eating-prasad-in-chamarajnagar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-11-dead-after-eating-prasad-in-chamarajnagar\/","title":{"rendered":"Karnataka: 11 dead after eating prasad in Chamarajnagar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/karnataka-11-dead-after-eating-prasad-in-chamarajnagar\/sulavadi\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-307027\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-307027 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/sulavadi-300x208.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"615\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sulavadi-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sulavadi-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sulavadi-218x150.jpg 218w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sulavadi-696x483.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sulavadi-605x420.jpg 605w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/12\/sulavadi.jpg 1012w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 615px) 100vw, 615px\" \/><\/a>As many as 11 people died and over 80 were hospitalised on Friday after consuming food or\u00a0prasad\u00a0at a temple in Karnataka&#8217;s Chamarajnagar district, police said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The tragedy took place at the Kichu Maranda temple in Sulivadi village,<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An official claimed that some toxic substance may have got mixed with the prasad being served, resulting in the tragedy. &#8220;The samples have been collected and sent to a laboratory for analysis,&#8221; he said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The ailing were hospitalised across Chamarajnagar and Mysuru districts.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the sources, when devotees consumed prasad, several of them began vomiting after it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Chief Minister HD Kumaraswamy expressed shock over the incident and directed the authorities to ensure that the affected people receive proper medical treatment. He also announced Rs 5 Lakh ex gratia to the next of the kin of the deceased.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cThis is an unfortunate incident. There are reports that the food was deliberately poisoned, and the samples were sent for testing. Action will be taken against whoever is behind this inhuman act,&#8221; Kumaraswamy said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An investigation into the matter is underway.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As many as 11 people died and over 80 were hospitalised on Friday after consuming food or\u00a0prasad\u00a0at a temple in Karnataka&#8217;s Chamarajnagar district, police said. The tragedy took place at the Kichu Maranda temple in Sulivadi village, An official claimed that some toxic substance may have got mixed with the prasad being served, resulting in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":307027,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2070,2072,2014],"tags":[1430,10291],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307026"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":307029,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307026\/revisions\/307029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/307027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}