FISH EATING TRAGEDY
eighteen deaths. (United Press Association-!—By Electric Tele graph—Copy r i gh t). (Received this day at 9.25. a.in.) DELHI, Sept. 28. Eighteen deaths occurred in a fishing village in Travancore, as the result of four families eating the flets'h of a sea. animal resembling a giant tortoise, which was caught nibbling at nets spread on the shore. Half the flesh was divided among the captors and the rest sold in the market. In all twelve members of the families died after the feast, and many buying the flesh in the market were seriously ill, six being dead. Experts examined the shell and decare it was not the ordinary tortoise, the species being unknown. The local Government has ordered an inquiry into the tragedy.
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Hokitika Guardian, 29 September 1928, Page 5
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