Jalpaiguri(WB): At least 20 children fell ill after eating poisonous fruit in West Bengal’s Darjeeling district, officials said on Thursday.
The children were playing in a field at Monirom Jot village on Wednesday evening when they found the fruit and ate it on Wednesday evening, they said.
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After eating the fruit they started vomiting and were rushed to Naxalbari Hospital.
The condition of the 20 children was stated to be stable, they said.
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