RAWALPINDI - As many as 20 female students of a local seminary in Dhoke Mustaqeem were rushed to hospital after they fell sick by eating poisonous edibles in afternoon, informed sources on Saturday. The sick seminary students were shifted to District Headquarters Hospital for medical treatment.
According to sources, as many as 20 female students fell ill after eating Samosa and Pakora from nearby shop and they had been shifted to the hospital where their condition was stable.
They said that the rescue received call from the area about the sickness of female students of the local madrassah and after getting initial information, it was found that girls bought samosas and pakoras from nearby bazaar and fell ill after consuming the food. The local police had started probing the matter after getting the samples of food for laboratory test, they said.