Aligarh (Uttar Pradesh), Oct 18 (PTI) More than 300 women students of the Aligarh Muslim University (AMU) were taken to a hospital on Wednesday morning with symptoms of food poisoning, authorities said. They started showing the symptoms after dinner at their hostel the previous night.
By the afternoon, almost all of them were discharged from the university’s Jawaharlal Nehru Medical College, they said.
As the news of the incident spread, district authorities rushed a team of health officials to take samples of food stored at the hostel’s dining area and kitchens.
District health officials and food inspectors have collected food samples from the hostel, an university official said.
An AMU spokesperson told PTI that a three-member committee has been set up to investigate the matter.
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