Hanur: About 70 students of a Government School in Hanur taluk of Chamarajanagar district took ill yesterday after they consumed food in which a dead lizard was spotted.
More than 90 of the 170 students at Vadakehalla Government Higher Primary School had food at the school as part of the Mid-Day Meals programme on Monday. As meals were served to the children, some helpers found a dead lizard in the curry vessel, following which the students were asked to stop taking food. But by then, 70 of the students had already consumed the food and they began to vomit some time later.
