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CALCUTTA, India, Friday (AFP) At least 15 children below the age of five have died and more than 100 have taken ill in a "mysterious disease" outbreak over the past five days in the east Indian state of West Bengal, officials said.

Director of West Bengal health services Prabhakar Chatterjee told AFP the disease had affected more than 100 children below the age of five in three villages - Kuchina, Kaddamtala and Natundiya - in Murshidabad district, about 320 kilometres (198 miles) north of state capital Calcutta.

"The disease might have been caused by the excessive heat sweeping the district for over a fortnight," he added.

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