Pneumonia, viral fever claim 3

Civil Surgeon Tamsil Uddin said high temperature in the monsoon causes the diseases.

Those killed by diarrhoea are eight-month-old Sima of Sapur village and five- day-old Babu of Kazirhat in Baderganj upazila. Sharifa Khatun, 18, of Kursha village in Taraganj upailza died of viral fever at the upazila health complex.

A large number children were attacked with pneumonia in last few days. Many of them were admitted to different upazila health complexes and at the children ward at Rangpur Medical College Hospital (RMCH).