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Six people admitted to Maweni hospital after eating poisoned food
2007-08-17 08:59:08
By Peter Tindwa
Six people from the same family have been admitted to Maweni Regional Hospital in Kigoma Region after eating a suspected poisoned food.
The Kigoma Regional Police Commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police Patrick Byatao, told The Guardian from Kigoma yesterday that the incident occurred at Ujiji-Buzebazeba in Kigoma Municipality on Monday.
`After eating the food, all six persons started to lose body control and became unconscious as well as vomiting, `ACP Byatao stated.
Byatao named the victims as Ally Petro a father of the family, Abu Ally, a Standard Four pupil and Mwajuma Ally, a Standard Three pupil, who cooked the food believed to have been poisoned.
Other victims were named by ACP Byatao as Ramadhani Ally (9), a Standard Two pupil of Buzebazeba Primary School, Fatuma Ally (5) and Hadija Ally (2).
Byatao said all the six victims were admitted to Maweni Regional Hospital.
`We have already sent the sample of the food to the office of the Chief Government`s Chemist in Dar es Salaam for laboratory test,` ACP Byatao said.
So far, no person has been arrested in connection with the suspected poisoned food, according to Byatao.
In the meantime, a man identified as Enock Nzigo has died after taking a larger amount of illicit brew without taking food.
Byatao said the man, a primary school teacher, died on Tuesday after drinking the brew from a local pub.
In another incident, police have arrested a Kasulu resident Upepo Hiyuya (75), for allegedly possessing 50 seedlings of bhangi.
Byatao said that Hiyuya was arrested by on Tuesday, around 11:30 hours.
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