ABOUT 75 wedding guests, including 30 children, were hospitalised yesterday for apparent food poisoning, a police officer in the Upper Egyptian governorate of Assuit said yesterday.
The guests were taken to hospitals in Assuit city when they began vomiting after a dinner that included cakes and sweets, Al-Gomhuria newspaper reported today.The guests, including women and children, are ill after eating cakes deliv- ered to the house, where the wedding party was being held, it added."The police have sent samples to a Ministry of Health laboratory in Cairo to identify any suspicious substance in the food,"it said.
