30 children fall sick after eating chocolates

March 2, 2012

Hosp_March1 Bangalore, March 2: The birthday celebrations of a fifth standard student, Aniketan, went awry on Thursday as 30 of his classmates complained of uneasiness after eating chocolates distributed by him at the Vinayaka Vidyasamsthe at the Banappa Park premises here.

The students were immediately rushed to the Vani Vilas Hospital. Doctors treating them said they were out of danger. It was a suspected case of food poisoning.

BBMP health official Samiulla later raided the shop in Cubbonpet, from where the cholocates were brought. The samples were sent to the Forensic Science Laboratory (FSL) for examination.

According to Aniketan, his father had bought about 200 chocolates on Wednesday evening.

A resident of Cubbonpet, Aniketan took the same chocolates to school on Thursday morning and distributed them to his classmates around 11 am. Earlier, Aniketan distributed the same chocolates to all teachers at the staffroom.

“Later he came to the class and distributed the sweets to his classmates,” said C Vijayalakshmi, Principal of Vinayaka English Higher Primary school, opposite Bannappa Park in Cubbonpet.

Some of them kept the chocolates in their bags while some ate them. “S Srinivas, a student who ate the chocolate, complained that his tongue is burning. He was given water and within minutes, three others, R Geeta, Poojashree and Sneha complained of severe stomach pain,” Vijayalakshmi said.

Srinivas vomited in the bathroom. “The class teacher alerted me and when I visited the class, around 15 children complained of uneasiness,” she said.

Sensing something wrong with the chocolate, Vijayalakshmi asked other children not to eat the sweets and rushed 20 of them to a nearby BBMP health centre.

“The BBMP health officers asked us to take the children to Vani Vilas Hospital. As a precautionary measure, we shifted all the 30 to Vani Vilas Hospital in a school vehicle around 12 pm,” she said.

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Elderly man kills wife over debt, illness

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February 11,2020

Mumbai, Feb 11: A 65-year-old woman was allegedly killed by her husband over debt and illness in suburban Powai here, police said on Tuesday.

The incident came to light when Sheela Ajit Lad was found dead by her neighbours at Sukh Shanti Co-operative Society at around 9.30 pm on Monday, an official said.

The victim was allegedly killed by her husband Ajit Lad, who hit her on the head with a heavy object, slit her wrists and strangled her to death, he said.

The accused absconded at around 7.30 pm, leaving a note at the crime scene, saying he was going to commit suicide and had killed his wife because he was heavily in debt and she was suffering from an ailment, the official said.

The childless couple lived alone in the apartment, he added.

"On the basis of the note, we have registered a case of murder against Ajit Lad and have launched a manhunt for him. We have not traced him or found his body as he had mentioned suicide in the note," deputy commissioner of police (DCP) Zone X Ankit Goyal said.

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'Death Cap' mushrooms behind death of six in Meghalaya

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May 9,2020

Shillong, May 9: The poisonous mushrooms that killed six people at a remote village in Meghalaya's West Jaintia Hills district have been identified as Amanita phalloides, commonly known as the 'Death Cap', a senior official said on Saturday.

Six people, including a 14-year-old girl, of Lamin village along the India-Bangladesh border in Amlarem civil sub-division died after consuming wild mushrooms they collected from a nearby forest late last month.

The wild mushroom has been identified as Amanita phalloides and is hepatotoxic as it directly affects the liver, state Director of Health Services (MI) Dr Aman War told PTI.

He said it has been established after an investigation that the cause of the deaths was the poisonous mushrooms.

At least 18 persons from three families were taken ill after consuming the mushrooms.

The symptoms after consuming the poisonous fungus include vomiting, headache and unconsciousness, the senior doctor said.

Most of those taken ill, including a pregnant woman, have already recovered and gone home. Therefore, people can survive as it depends on the amount of poison that you have consumed. Only one person was unaffected, maybe he did not consume much, he said.

Three people are still undergoing treatment and are recovering. Two of them are at the North Eastern Indira Gandhi Regional Institute of Health and Medical Sciences (NEIGRIHMS) and one in Woodland Hospital, Dr War said.

He said the health department can only appeal to the people, especially those in the rural areas, to refrain from eating wild mushrooms, while the horticulture department should take measures to create awareness.

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