A total of 20,874 cattle got infected with this disease across 31 districts of the state till October 13, an official said. Of these, 18,351 animals have recovered till now, while 336 have died.
The police fished out the bodies and sent them for autopsy.
In Madhya Pradesh's Betul, Khandwa and Singrauli districts, total 12 persons were killed including five women and three children and at least 35 others were injured, 18 of them are serious.
A special court in Madhya Pradesh's Khandwa district has sentenced a 24-year-old man to 10 years of imprisonment for raping a minor girl, an official said on Thursday.
