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Date: 17 August 2009, 09:00am IST

Two women in Bangalore both aged 27 and one in Pune aged 36 died today due to swine flu raisin the country’s death rate to 28.

Pune is now at the first place with the toll rate 13 and second is Bangalore with five deaths so far.

Besides Bangalore and Pune, Ahmedabad, Nashik, Thiruvananthapuram, Raipur and Rilapur has the death number one and two each in Mumbai and Vadodara.

The report from the health offcials says that two persons Shamshad Begum and Shilpa Hegde fell prey to this infection at different hospitals. Their test reports have confirmed positive against the H1N1 virus.

Begum was suffering from breathing problem for the last three months and lately she suffered from cough, cold and fever, and she was admitted in the Baptist hospital on 10th August Medical Superintendent Chandy Abraham said.

The official sources said that a 36 year old woman in Sasson hospital died late tonight because of swine flu.

On August 13 a woman named Bina Gonsalves admitted in the hospital was suspected with swine flu symptoms. With the thirteenth death rate in Pune the death rate of the country rise to 28.