Mid-day meal kills two
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20/03/2008
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Financial Express
Villagers of Kandwala, a sleepy village near Fazilka, have reason to seek sealing of the food meant for the mid-day meal in their primary school, as the stock has allegedly taken its toll with the death of two women and four of their kids hospitalised after they consumed the wheat in question. Punjab Health officials have taken samples of the wheat from the Kandwala primary school, and the stock now has been sealed, eventually halting centrally sponsored mid-day meal scheme in the village. On last Saturday night the four siblings, along with their mother Jaswinder Kaur and grandmother Sammi Bai, consumed the