30 children fall sick after eating chocolates

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March 2, 2012

Hosp_March1Bangalore, 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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June 30,2020

Visakhapatnam, Jun 30: Two people were killed and four others were taken ill after benzene gas leaked at a pharmaceutical company at Parawada near here early on Tuesday morning, official sources said.

The situation was now under control as the leak was restricted to one unit in the Sainor Life Sciences company, the sources said.

The two killed were senior employees of the company, they said.

The injured persons have been admitted to a hospital in Gajuwaka, with one of them being put on ventilator support, the sources added.

District Collector V Vinay Chand and Police Commissioner R K Meena visited the company to take stock of the situation.

The cause of the leak that took place in a reactor unit at the plant is yet to be established.

The incident comes nearly two months after 11 people were killed and over 1000 taken ill after gas leak at a chemical plant here.

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March 3,2020

Panipat, Mar 3: A 22-year-old man was charred to death after he came in contact with a live electricity wire while posing for a TikTok video near the Matlaudha railway station here, police said on Tuesday.

The incident took place on Monday evening when Vikas, a resident of Dharamgarh village, climbed a pole over which the wire was passing and posed for the video, police said.

His three friends were standing below when the accident took place.

Vikas came in contact with the wire carrying 25,000 volts current and was burnt, police said.

Police have sent the body for a post-mortem and started investigation into the matter.

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July 31,2020

Amaravati, Jul 31: Nine people have died after allegedly consuming sanitiser in Prakasam district of Andhra Pradesh today, the police said.

Prakasam district Superintendent of Police Siddharth Kaushal said the people had been consuming sanitiser for the past few days, mixing it with water and soft drinks.

"We are also investigating whether they laced the sanitiser with any other toxic substances," the official said.

"Their family members say these people have been consuming sanitiser for the past ten days. We are sending the sanitiser stocks, being sold in the area, for examination," he added.

Kurichedu in Prakasam district has been under lockdown due to rise in coronavirus cases and hence, liquor shops have also been shut since the past few days.

Habitual drinkers were said to be consuming sanitisers that have alcohol content, apart from illicitly distilled arrack.

The police said two beggars near a temple were the first to fall victim on Thursday night. While one of them was found dead at the spot, another died in the government hospital in Darsi town, they said.

A third person was also taken to the Darsi hospital late on Thursday night after he fell unconscious but he was declared brought dead. Six others who fell ill after allegedly consuming sanitiser, died this morning.

Others who fell ill after consuming sanitiser are undergoing treatment at their residences in the village, the police added.

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