A woman and a child died and hundreds fell ill in a mass outbreak of food poisoning at a camp for displaced people east of the Iraqi city of Mosul, officials said. More than 300 people were hospitalised after breaking their Ramadan fast with an iftar meal on Monday night, aid groups told Reuters. Many started vomiting and some fainted after eating rice, chicken, yogurt and soup, said Iraqi lawmaker Zahed Khatoun, a member of the Iraqi parliament's committee for displaced people. "We are told 312 were hospitalised ... one child and one adult woman we're told died," he added. The camp in al-Khazer, on the road linking Mosul and Erbil, the capital of the Kurdish region, houses 6,300 people, the UNHCR said.

Source: dna June 13, 2017 10:52 UTC