Suspected case of poisoning in Herat – 100 school children fall sick after eating boiled beans

#Herat #Afghanistan #foodpoisioning #streetvendor #taliban In a suspected case of mass scale food poisoning, over 100 Afghan schoolchildren aged between 7 and 12, had to be hospitalized after they fell ill from eating beans that they had bought from a street vendor.
This has been reported in news.sky.com dated 11 April 2015.

All the children are students of the Fatiha School in Afghanistan's Herat province. As revealed by Abdul Jabar Rozi, the police chief of Herat, the children had been told by a street vendor selling the beans that he would ask their teachers to give them good marks in their exams if they ate the beans.
The vendor has, since, been arrested and an investigation has been launched into whether the food was deliberately tainted, he said.
In the opinion of the police chief, enemies might be behind this. His conclusion is based on the fact that, in the past, Taliban insurgents have poisoned Afghan police and army soldiers. There have been periodic reports of poison attacks on schools but those have mostly turned out to be due to accidental food poisoning or to effects of mass hysteria.
Incidentally, food poisoning and waterborne diseases are prevalent in Afghanistan, which has suffered through decades of war and has limited public infrastructure. But, this appears to be a case of intentional harm to children.

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