JAMMU, Feb. 15 -- A second batch of 32 villagers, who were lodged in an isolation centre owing to mysterious deaths in their village, returned home in the Rajouri district of Jammu and Kashmir on Saturday, officials said.

Seventeen members of three families, including 13 children, died under mysterious circumstances after falling sick in the remote Badhaal village of Kotranka Sub-division between December 7 and January 19. On Saturday, at least 350 members of 70 families were allowed to return home after spending 22 days in the separation centres at Government Nursing College Building and Government Boys' Higher Secondary School in Rajouri town.

Among the 50 villagers put up in a separate isolation facility at Government Medical College (...