Demonetisation fallout: Leaves two elderly and three kids dead

New Delhi: In a tragic fallout of demonetisation of high-value currency notes as hassled people continued to descend on ATMs and banks in droves leading to arguments and scuffles, two elderly men standing in seemingly unending queues at banks suffered heart attack and died.  Madhya Pradesh: A 69-year-old man died in Madhya Pradesh's Sagar Town who suffered a heart attack while standing in a queue to exchange demonetised currency notes outside a bank here, police said today. "We got the information that an old man (Vinay Kumar Pandey) suffered a heart attack while he was standing in queue outside a bank to exchange his demonetised notes. He was rushed to a private hospital where he died later during treatment," Police Inspector V S Chauhan said. Gujarat: A similar incident was reported in Limbdi town of Surendranagar district in Gujarat where a 69-year-old man, who was standing in a queue to exchange demonetised currency notes in , died due to a heart attack, police said. Mansukh Darji, the senior citizen, was standing in a queue outside a Bank of India branch in Limbdi when he suddenly collapsed due to a heart attack, they added. "Though he was rushed to the civil hospital by others in the queue, he died shortly thereafter during treatment. We learnt that he suffered a heart attack. His family members informed the doctors that he was a heart patient," said the Police Station Officer (PSO) of Limbdi, Navghanbhai. A 47-year-old farmer had died yesterday after suffering a heart attack while standing in a queue for over two hours outside a bank at Tarapur town in the district to exchange demonetised currency notes. Meanwhile, a large number of distressed citizens today continued to throng the banks and ATMs across Gujarat to get the new currency notes since the wee hours. As the queues were getting bigger day by day, many complained of having to wait for hours. Several citizens also complained of returning empty-handed, despite standing in the queue for hours. Moradabad: Apart from the death of the elderly, a tragic side effect of demonetisation also surfaced in Mainpuri, Moradabad where a hospital’s refusal to take the payment in Rs.500 currency notes resulted in the death of two kids. Thirteen- year-old Aftaab was diagnosed with dengue but the hospital refused to admit the boy because his family was uanble to pay the bill in new denomination notes. Mumbai: The same incident happened in Govandi, Mumbai where the alleged refusal of treatment by a private hospital resulted in a newborn's death since the family had the scrapped Rs 500 notes to pay the bill. A police case was registered against a Govandi doctor over the death. Tempers are running high as millions of anxious cash-starved people waited for hours for the fourth day in a row on Sunday outside overworked banks to deposit or exchange their spiked denomination notes or withdraw cash from heavily crowded ATMs across India.