India, Jan. 31 -- The number of suspected deaths in Maharashtra due to Guillain-Barre Syndrome (GBS), a rare nerve disorder, rose to four with two deaths reported in Pune on Friday, while with ten fresh cases the tally in the state so far stood at 140, public health department officials said.

As per Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) officials, one death includes a 60-year-old man, a retired teacher from the GBS-affected area of DSK Vishwa in Dhayari. He was admitted to Poona Hospital on January 27 and reportedly died on Friday evening. The cause of death is said to be a bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis, a rare inflammatory disorder of the central nervous system and GBS.

The deceased on January 23 developed diarrhoea and visited a nearb...