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100 Sri Lankan garment workers hospitalized due to food poisoning

Xinhua, June 23, 2015 Adjust font size:

Around 100 employees of a local garment factory in Avisawella in the outskirts of capital Colombo were admitted to hospital on Tuesday due to food poisoning, the police media unit said.

A police officer from the unit told Xinhua that the employees had fallen ill after consuming food from the factory on Monday afternoon and had been rushed to the Avisawella Base Hospital on Tuesday.

Local police are conducting further investigations into the incident. Endi