An outbreak of pneumonia has killed 12 people in less than a month in a village close to the Nepal-Tibet border in the Himalayan Kingdom, state television said on Tuesday. Nepal Television said medical teams had been rushed to the remote Lamabagar village near the country's border with Tibet. Three of those who died were children less than five years old, the Nepali daily Kantipur said on Tuesday. Earlier this month, an outbreak of measles in three remote villages of western Nepal killed 26 children within a week.
Pneumonia is an acute infection of the lungs caused by bacteria or virus.
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