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Written By: Agencies | Published : September 26, 2014 11:29 PM IST
More than 50 school children in Ghaziabad district fell ill after they consumed water from a hand pump in their school premises. The police said that children were admitted to a hospital . The incident took place in Kanhera village, 20 km from Ghaziabad region in Uttar pradesh. An official said that students of a government school started vomiting and showed signs of diarrhoea, soon after drinking water from the hand pump.
Police helped rush the students in ambulances to hospitals here. Police officer Jagdish Sharma said a police team has been deployed in the village to assist health department staff.'The cover of the hand pump was found to be open and we cannot rule out the possibility that some foreign material may have been in the hand pump,' Chief Medical Officer Ajay Aggarwal told IANS. He said: 'All the students, below nine years of age, were vomiting. About a dozen of them have been put under observation and are recovering.' He added that water samples have been sent for a test and the result was expected in three days.
Source: IANS
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