NEW DELHI, Mar 6 (NNN-PTI) – More than 1,200 people were sickened or hospitalised, after eating at a wedding, in the western Indian state of Gujarat, local media reported yesterday.
The guests, mostly locals, consumed food at the wedding of a local Congress leader’s son, in the Mehsana district on Friday, about 61 km north of Gandhinagar, the capital city of Gujarat.
The incident triggered panic in the area.
According to a statement issued by the office of the Mehsana collectorate, the patients’ situation “is improving.”
Officials from the forensic science laboratory and the food and drug department have collected samples of the food served at the function and sent them to the lab for testing.
Police have registered a case and initiated investigations into the incident.
