Bhubaneswar, Feb. 22 -- West Bengal on Saturday reported a death reportedly caused by the Guillain-Barre Syndrome, the second fatality in the state since January.

The victim has been identified as Khairul Sheikh, 22, a resident of the Suti area in the state's Murshidabad district. He is a former para-medical student of state-run R.G. Kar Medical College & Hospital in Kolkata, which was in the news because of the ghastly rape and murder of a woman junior doctor attached to it within the hospital premises in August last year.

Sheikh had recently gone to Bihar's Purnea in connection with a job at a private hospital there. He had fallen sick there, following which he came back to his ancestral home at Suti.

As his condition started deterio...