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In a deeply disturbing incident, a man allegedly poisoned his two minor sons in Odisha's Tube village under Jarapada police limits of Angul district, on Friday. The children are now battling for their lives at the district headquarters hospital (DHH).

According to sources, the accused man picked up his sons, 12-year-old and 8-year-old, from school at around 12 Noon. He took them to the Nuakheta forest area under the Bantala police limits and allegedly poisoned them.

Some alert villagers who witnessed the act immediately rushed to the spot, rescued the two children, and admitted them initially to a hospital in Bantala. Due to t...