42 Fall Sick After Mass Poisoning At Wedding Reception

Forty-two wedding guests have fallen ill from mass food poisoning in Afghanistan’s northern province of Takhar, local police said on Monday.

Mubin Safi from provincial police department said the incident occurred during a wedding ceremony in Takhan Abad village of Chah Hab district on Sunday night.

Safi said among the sick people were also the groom and bride.

He added that the affected people were taken to the district hospital where a number of them received treatment in an intensive care unit of the facility.

According to him, three people were arrested following the case and an investigation was also underway into the food poisoning at the wedding in the far-flung district.

Meanwhile besides the news of the mass poisoning at the wedding reception in Afghanistan, in Nigeria, GWGNG has reported that The Police Command in Anambra State has confirmed the kidnap of Mr Okechukwu Okoye, a lawmaker representing Aguata Constituency 1 in the State House of Assembly.

Okoye, an indigene of Isuofia, the same community as Gov. Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State, was kidnapped in Aguata on Sunday.

DSP Toochukwu Ikenga, the Police Public Relations Officer of the command, who confirmed the kidnap while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria, (NAN), on Sunday in Anambra, said the lawmaker’s black Siena bus, which he was driving before the incident, had been recovered.

Ikenga said the command had launched a manhunt for the kidnappers with the aim of rescuing him.

The PPRO also confirmed the killing of a member of a vigilante group, who was on a motorcycle in Oko town, Anambra, on Sunday.

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