NOIDA: As many as 76 college students have been hospitalised resulting from suspected meals poisoning after having dinner made for these observing Mahashivratri quick at a personal hostel in Uttar Pradesh’s Higher Noida, police mentioned on Saturday.
The scholars, who’re enrolled at totally different schools, had the dinner on Friday after which a lot of them complained of uneasiness, dizziness and vomiting, police mentioned.
The scholars have been staying at Aryan Residency within the Information Park space — an academic hub — and had ‘puris’ made from ‘kuttu ka atta’ (buckwheat flour) on account of Mahashivratri on Friday.
“The native police are seized of the incident which befell on Friday night after round 76 college students had their dinner after which complained of their stomachs getting upset. All the scholars have been taken to totally different hospitals and their situation is steady now,” police mentioned in an announcement.
There isn’t any regulation and order challenge because of the incident and the matter is being probed, it added.