PATNA: Twenty-one children have died after eating a free lunch feared to contain poisonous chemicals at a school in eastern India, officials said on Wednesday, sparking angry protests as mobs ran riot.
Another 30 children remained ill in hospital after consuming the meal of lentils, vegetables and rice cooked at a village primary school in the dirt-poor state of Bihar on Tuesday.
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