Alto gether 18 children were born blind in the arsenic affected blocks of Bhojpur district during the past three months, Bihar health minis- ter Nand Kishore Yadav confirmed on Wednesday.
The cause of the blindness was not yet known, but health department officials were in touch with ophthal- mologists, he said.
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