CHHINDWARA: Two more children undergoing treatment for kidney failure after consuming contaminated cough syrup have died in Madhya Pradesh's Chhindwara, raising the district’s death toll to 16, officials said.

"Today, the death of another girl was reported. So far, 16 children have died in the district," said Chhindwara Additional Collector Dhirendra Singh.

Earlier, the state government had confirmed the deaths of 14 children from Chhindwara who had allegedly consumed the cough syrup Coldrif, samples of which were found to have toxic contents.

Jayusha Yaduvanshi (2), a resident of Junnardeo in the district, died on Tuesday at a government hospital in Nagpur.

Another six children from Chhindwara are undergoing treatment at various hospitals in Nagpur, and the condition of five of them r

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