Overview
- Health teams screened 9,416 residents across 2,354 households in Bhagirathpura and identified 20 additional diarrhoea cases, with 142 patients now in hospitals including 11 in ICUs.
- Laboratory reports confirmed multiple pathogens in the municipal supply, and officials identified breaches in a 30-year-old pipeline located below a toilet at a police outpost as a key contamination point.
- A specialist team from the National Institute for Research in Bacterial Infections has joined the probe, while authorities conduct chlorination, repair leaks, deploy tankers and allow only tested sources for use.
- The administration reports the outbreak is under control as accountability steps continue, including the removal of Indore’s municipal commissioner, suspensions of senior officials and payments announced for bereaved families.
- The death toll remains contested, with six confirmed by officials and higher figures cited by the mayor and residents, as a separate typhoid surge in Gandhinagar records about 70 active cases linked to pipeline leaks and triggers super-chlorination and a new pediatric ward.