38-year-old Delhi woman dies of swine flu, toll rises to six

New Delhi, Sep.11 (ANI): A 38-year-old woman has become Delhi's sixth swine flu victim.

Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital Medical Superintendent N.K. Chaturvedi said the victim, Raj Bala, was a resident of Faridabad and had been admitted with swine flu symptoms on September 5. He said that she died this morning.

Bala was both diabetic and hypertensive and had a past history of bronchial asthma.

Chaturvedi said she died of pulmonary edema.

Earlier, a 12-year-old girl, Gauri, a resident of Dwarka had died at the same hospital on Thursday. (ANI)