Dhenkanal, Odisha:
At least 39 students on Friday fell ill after consuming food, allegedly contaminated with a dead scorpion, at their school in Odisha's Dhenkanal district, officials said.
Latika Behera (11), a Class-V student of the Upper Primary School at Siaria Tailasahi in Dhenkanal area, while consuming the meal spotted the scorpion in the potato-soya curry, they said.
Soon, the children complained of uneasiness and started vomiting. They were rushed to the district headquarters hospital.
Thirty-six of them were discharged after preliminary treatment, while three, including two girls, are undergoing treatment, Dhenkanal Block Extension Officer Dhanjaya Mohapatra said.
Altogether 39 of the 48 students, most of them tribals, had attended the school on Friday and consumed the mid-day-meal, the officials said.