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Outbreak of Arsenic in Magura

Hasan Mahmud, Magura, 05 April: The arsenic, the king of slow poison, has recently taken the village Lalpur of Magura in its grip. Most of the tube-wells are affected by this poison. As no attempt on the part of the local government is made to identify, people out of ignorance are drinking water from those tube-wells.  

The adverse effect of this poison has already taken an epidemic form. Nearly one hundred people are suffering from incurable sores in the palms of hands and feet. Many other people, irrespective of children and old people are more or less affected. Hospital sources said, most of the tube-wells in the village are carrying arsenic.

As there is no other source of drinking water, people here are being bound to drink arsenic-contaminated water of these arsenic affected tube-wells and thus gradually heading towards death. It is assumed that if the government does not take immediate measures, the villagers have to face humanitarian disaster because of arsenic.

Thus, it is high time government took necessary measures to solve the problem.