Hundreds
fell ill from food poisoning in a camp for displaced people east of the Iraqi
city of Mosul on Monday evening, and were rushed to nearby hospitals, Iraqi
officials
said.
People
started vomiting and some fainted after eating an iftar meal, breaking the
Muslim Ramadan fast, said lawmaker Zahed Khatoun, a member of the Iraqi
parliament’s committee for displaced people.
The camp in
al-Khazer on the road linking Mosul and Erbil houses people displaced by an
offensive to dislodge ISIS fighters from Mosul.
According to
Al Arabiya sources, seven people have been arrested in connection with the mass
poisoning. (alarabiya.net)
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