It is learnt that the family members fell sick after eating the mushroom brought from the nearby jungle on Thursday morning. They were rushed to Bharatpur Hospital with the help of locals on Thursday noon.[break]
The people of Chepang community in remote parts of Chitwan district still depend on forest produces for their food supply such as roots, tubers, Kandamuls and others.
Two years ago eight members of a family had died at Lothar in the district after eating poisonous mushroom.
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