Masrakh

• Bihar mid-day meal disaster: cooks recount the horror

  Soon after they served the daily free lunch they had prepared for dozens of children at a school in Masrakh, the two cooks realized something was very wrong.

• In Bihar, sorrow, anger and still no real answers for mid-day meals tragedy

  Today, the government has released ads in local newspapers that order school principals and cooks in charge of preparing hot lunches to taste the food before it's served to students.

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  Bihar's mid-day meal disaster: 22 children dead, Nitish Kumar's party alleges conspiracy

  Alarming new cases of children being food-poisoned from free mid-day meals were reported today in Bihar. 22 children have been killed in Chhapra from a meal that was served to them yesterday, allegedly contaminated with pesticides. In Madhubani, 50 children complained of nausea and were taken to hospital before being discharged.

• Bihar's mid-day meal disaster: 22 children dead, politics through the tragedy

  This morning, devastated families in the village of Masrakh in Bihar buried children who died after a free lunch they were served in school on Tuesday. Today, at least seven children were hospitalised after eating their mid-day meal at another school in the state's Madhubani district. In and around Masrakh, 60 kms from the capital of Patna, angry r...