2 die, 400 hospitalised with food poisoning

Two children died of food poisoning and over 400 people have been hospitalised after consuming food at an Iftar party in West Bengal, an official said yesterday. The party was held in Dum Dum in North 24-Parganas district on Sunday night. “A six-year-old girl and an 11-year-old boy died yesterday while more than 400 people have been hospitalised after consuming food at an Iftar party,” said Shyama Prasad Mitra, superintendent of the Infectious Diseases Hospital in Beliaghata where the sick are admitted. He said a team of 15 more doctors had been requisitioned to meet the contingency. He said patients had been coming to the hospital since Sunday and the two children who died were admitted early yesterday morning. from gulf times.