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53 students hospitalized in MP after eating meal at school
Icchawar, MP, Aug 15 (IBNS): Fifty three students were admitted to hospital on Friday after they consumed mid-day meal served at their school in Icchawar in Madhya Pradesh, reports said.
The incident happened around 11 am when the children, aged between 10 and 15, started complaining of nausea and vomiting after eating the special meal, prepared on the occasion of Independence Day, at the Balampur Middle School, an NDTV report said.
The students were then rushed to the local hospital.
Five of them are reported to be in serious condition.
"We are investigating the matter and trying to find out the cause and who is at fault," RK Bhadoria, Sub Divisional Officer of Police was quoted as saying by NDTV.
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