Azerbaijan, Baku, May 30 / Trend , A.Huseynbala/
It was set a diagnosis that the soldiers were poisoned at the Garaheybat Military Training Center of the Azerbaijan Defense Ministry due to functional violation of their stomach activity.
"This, in turn, occurred, as the soldiers' stomach-intestine system caught cold," Defense Ministry Official Teymur Abdullayev told Trend on May 30.
As many as 164 soldiers have been hospitalized with the Military Clinic Hospital for mass food poisoning in the Garaheybat Military Training Center in Garadagh district of Baku on May 28.
A total of 158 soldiers returned to the service place after examination, a source at the Defence Ministry told Trend on May 28. Six of them are underwent treatment as extra diseases have been revealed in them. These soldiers were discharged from hospital on May 29.
The Military Prosecutor Office has filed a suit over the case.
MP Aydin Mirzazade, together with a group of journalists, got familized with the food and conditions of soldiers in the military training center on May 28.
Abdullayev said this opinion was set in line with the results of the soldiers' tests. "Investigation continues," the official said.
As to taking 164 to the Military Clinic Hospital, Abdullayev said it was a result of agiotage. "The soldiers were taken to the hospital only to pass medical examination. But as a result of prevention measures, it was revealed that there was a problem in only 6 soldiers' health," the defense ministry official said.
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