Jaipur, April 9 -- Two more children have died in Rajasthan's Salumber on Wednesday as medical teams continue to investigate the cause of the illness, suspected to be viral encephalitis, that has killed six toddlers in Ghata and Lalpura villages over the past few days.

Salumber's district collector Muhammed Junaid said that two teams from the health department have been monitoring the situation constantly for the last few days.

"They have collected blood, stool and saliva samples from children with suspected symptoms. Their samples have been sent to the National Institute of Virology (NIV) in Pune. We suspect it could be a kind of viral encephalitis, but we are yet to get the test report from NIV," Junaid said.

According to health depa...