HYDERABAD/DADU, May 31: Seven more children - four in Hyderabad and three in Dadu - died due to gastrointestinal problems, caused by consumption of contaminated water of the Indus river, on Monday.

A one-and-half-year old girl, Muskan, and four-year-old boy, Hassan, died at the Bhitai Hospital, and a nine-month old baby girl, Amna, and a 24-day-old baby boy, Azeem, died at the Civil Hospital of Hyderabad.

Doctors of civil and Bhitai hospitals said that infants and children were continued to be reported at different hospitals on account of diarrhoea and vomiting.

Our Dadu Correspondent adds: In the Girkano village, situated at the bank of the Manchhar Lake near Bhan Saeedabad, Dilbar, 5, and two brothers, Muslim, 3, and three-month-old Yousuf, died of water-borne diseases.

The medical superintendent of the Bhan Saeedabad Government Hospital, Dr Mumtaz Channa, said that two serious patients of gastroenteritis, Noor, 4, and Zahid, 6, were admitted to the hospital on Monday.

The taluka health officer, Sehwan, Dr Moinuddin, said that three to four cases were daily reported at hospitals near Manchhar. However, he declined that any patient had died of water-borne diseases at government hospitals.