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Folk singer Sharda Sinha dies

Patna, Nov 5 (UNI) Noted folk singer Sharda Sinha died after prolonged illness on Tuesday night.
She was 72.
Sinha, who was undergoing treatment at the All-India Institute of Medical Science, New Delhi, died despite the best efforts made by attending doctors to save her life. In her long career as a singer, she had sung songs on the Chhath festival and other folk songs, relished in Bihar and other parts of the country besides abroad.
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