Mumbai, Nov. 12 -- A minor girl died while seven other children of the same family were hospitalised, one of them in critical condition, after allegedly consuming poisonous castor seeds in Modalgaon village of Dhadgaon tehsil in Maharashtra's Nandurbar district, officials said on Thursdasy.
According to preliminary information, the eight children, comprising five boys and three girls, were playing near an agricultural field when they allegedly consumed seeds from a castor plant growing along its boundary.
The children's parents had reportedly migrated to another district in search of livelihood through wage labour, while their elderly grandparents, who were looking after them, had gone out to graze cattle at the time of the incident.
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