27 hospitalized after eating food at funeral

Wednesday, November 3, 2010, 17:37 [IST]

Shillong, Nov 3: Atleast 27 people including 8 children, in Meghalaya"s Jaintia Hills district were hospitalized for suspected food poisoning after they had food at a funeral gathering on Tuesday, Nov 2.

Sources said, people started vomiting after eating food at a funeral gathering and later they were admitted at a hospital in Jowai,

The Hospital sources said that the pork supplied in the funeral gathering was suspected to be infected and stale.

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