Some 86 primary students were poisoned after having lunch
separately at the dining halls of three primary schools in Songyuan
city of northeast China's Jilin
Province Thursday, according to local official Friday.
Zhang Yi, deputy director of the health department of Jilin
Province, said that soon after taking lunch, 86 students began to
feel sick or stomachache while some of them suffered from vomit and
diarrhea.
To the press time, some 48 poisoned students are still in the
hospitals for treatment while the others have been discharged from
hospitals upon recovery.
The course of the accident is under investigation, Zhang
said.
(Xinhua News Agency December 6, 2003)