Close on the heels of 23 children’s death in Bihar after eating midday meal, at least 39 students on Friday fell ill after consuming midday food that was contaminated by a dead scorpion at school in Dhenkanal, officials said. latika Behera (11), a Class-V student of the Upper Primary School at Siaria Tailasahi, while eating the meal, spotted the scorpion in potato-soya curry.
Soon, the children started vomiting. They were rushed to the District Headquarters Hospital here. Thirty-six of them were discharged after preliminary treatment while three, including two girls, are undergoing treatment, Dhenkanal Block Extension Officer Dhananjay Mohapatra said. Altogether 39 of the 48 students, most of them tribals, had attended the school on the day and consumed the midday meal, the officials said.