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Assam: 17 people fall ill after consuming prasad at a religious function

| @indiablooms | Jan 10, 2020, at 04:02 pm

Guwahati/IBNS: At least 17 people, including several children, fell ill after consuming prasad (food offered to deity during Hindu religious festival) at a religious function in Assam’s Biswanath district on Thursday night. 

The people were admitted to hospital after showing symptoms of food poisoning.

The incident took place at Morolgaon village in Biswanath district where people ate prasad during a religious function at a local’s house.

The people started vomiting and complained of severe lower abdomen pain after consuming prasad.

They were immediately admitted at Biswanath Charilai civil hospital.

The doctors of the government hospital said that, all of them are now out of danger.

(By Hemanta Kumar Nath, Guwahati)

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