Event
As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalised after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India
16 Jul 2013 · 26.11° N, 84.74° E
What the records say
- When
- 16 Jul 2013
- Kind
- Event
- Coordinates
- 26.11° N, 84.74° E
Placed at the coordinates of the event it links, Bihar school meal poisoning incident.
Summary
As many as 27 children die and 25 others are hospitalised after eating lunch served at their school in eastern India. Initial indications are that a jar previously used to hold an insecticide was reused for cooking oil and was thus thereby contaminated by organophosphorus.
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