Boston Globe

NEW DELHI.-Cholera has claimed 150 lives in the past two days in border area refugee camps where tens of thousands of refugees have fled into India from the civil war in East Pakistan, the Press Trust of India reported, yesterday.

So far an estimated 3.6 million refugees have entered India's West Bengal state bordering East Pakistan. The PTI said the cholera outbreak centered in several refugee camps in Karimpur town in the Nadia district of West Bengal state.