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Four die, 200 hospitalised after food poisoning in Nigeria

Other News Materials 29 February 2008 04:04 (UTC +04:00)

( dpa ) - Four people died on Thursday in a village in Cross River State, south-east Nigeria, after eating apparently poisoned nuts.

Two hundred others were hospitalised in Bekwarra village, the council chairman, Ochislego Idagbo, said. He said a three-year-old child was among the dead.

Idagbo said that all the casualties ate "poisoned banbara nuts." He said the nuts - a delicacy in the state - were brought from neighbouring Benue State.

The chairman said that hospital authorities in the council area had reported that some of the victims were still in a critical state.

Idagbo alleged that the nuts must have been treated with a poisonous preservative.

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