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NEW DELHI: A senior Indian health official warned Sunday against buying an antibiotic feared laced with a toxin found in rat poison and linked to the deaths of 13 women who underwent sterilisation operations.

NEW DELHI: India's opposition Congress leader Rahul Gandhi demanded Saturday a "thorough probe" into the sterilisation surgery deaths of 13 women as local media alleged the victims were treated with antibiotics contaminated with rat poison.

RAIPUR: Ten women have died in India and dozens more are in hospital, some in a critical condition, after a state-run programme that pays women to undergo sterilisation went badly wrong, officials said Tuesday.