Jaipur, Oct 4 (PTI) A six-year-old boy suffering from acute brain fever died at the state-run JK Lon Hospital in Jaipur on Saturday, hours after he was referred there from Churu, where, his parents claimed, the child was given a cough syrup at home.

The child was admitted to a hospital in Churu for three days. His parents claimed they gave him a cough syrup at home before the boy was hospitalised, an official said.

“Anas was admitted to the JK Lon hospital at 4 am on Saturday and he died at 10 am. The child was suffering from acute brain fever,” the official said.

This comes amid reports of deaths of 11 children, nine in Madhya Pradesh and two in Rajasthan, allegedly linked to contaminated cough syrup.

The two deaths in Rajasthan were reported from Bharatpur and Sikar, and it is allege

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