The five women, working in a paddy field at Jamunamukh village, were having their food when they complained of fever, weakness and blood vomiting, they said.
After they were taken to hospital, three of them died while two were seriously ill, the officials said, adding the deceased were identified as Binita Bora, Usha Bora and Bobita Bora.
It could be a case of food poisoning as local people claimed that poisonous insecticide might have got mixed in the food.
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