Mysuru, March 18 -- Meghalaya Government deputes two officials to Karnataka seeking detailed report into the death of students

Thirteen-year-old Meghalaya boy Nyamo Banti, who was shifted to Apollo BGS Hospitals in Mysuru from Mandya Institute of Medical Sciences (MIMS), in a critical condition following suspected food poisoning at Malavalli hostel, died last night. With this, the death toll in the Holi food poisoning case has reached two.

The first death of another 13-year-old student from Meghalaya, Khrehlang Khongtani, was reported on Sunday.

Among the students, who had taken ill following consumption of Holi festival dinner distributed by a businessman to Gokul Educational Institution at T. Kagepura, in Malavalli taluk of Mandya di...