New Delhi:
Three more dengue deaths have been reported in the national capital including that of a Delhi Police official, taking the number of deaths to 41.
44-year-old Omprakash, posted as Station House Officer at Bhalswa police station in northwest Delhi, died of the vector-borne disease at Max Hospital in Shalimar Bagh on Saturday, police said.
Omprakash is survived by his wife and two sons. A native of Haryana's Mahendragarh district, he joined the Delhi Police in 1994.
Besides, a 15-year old youth from Kapashera area succumbed to dengue at Ram Manohar Lohia (RML) Hospital. A constable from Uttarakhand undergoing treatment at Sir Ganga Ram Hospital died on October 7.
The number of people down with the vector-borne fever in the city has reached 9,438 while the dengue deaths in the city as per the civic body officials stands at 30.
Unofficially, however, the casualty count due to the disease is 41.
The outbreak this year has become the worst in the last six years, having surpassed the 2010 figure for the total number of cases (6,259) by the end of the last month.
Out of the total number of cases reported till today, September alone has seen 6,775 cases, also the highest in the last six years.
Incidentally, no cases were reported in the first three days of this month.