2 die, 9 fall sick by taking Potka fish

Members of three poor families took the poisonous Potka fish collected free of cost from Firingee Bazar fishery, police and witnesses said, adding that immediately after taking the fish at around 11:00am, they started falling sick.

One-year-old Mahmuda, daughter of Kabil Hossain, died after she was breast-fed by her poison affected mother Salma.

All the poison affected people, who were badly vomiting, were rushed to Chittagong Medical College Hospital where Feroz, 45, died at around 3:00pm.